PROFILE
London.
JACKIE KENNEDY
is the richest, pretti- est rebel in the business. She is the rebel with the highest position, the one with the most alluring voice.
Nonetheless, she is still a rebel. Her cause is one that has inspired revolution since time began-independence. It
is A
cause
dear
American hearts,
to
with
memories of colonialism
and all that.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1961,
WOMANSENSE
The
ON THE FIRST LADY IN AMERICA
richest
rebel in
the
business
The jarring note for America is that Jackie Ken- nedy fights to be independent of some of the things that
American Independence has brought.
For Independent America is a conformist society.
by
The greatest accolade the United States can bestows Simon
Chat of an All-American-the guy who is outstanding in his conformity.
For President, America is pleased to have John
A Fitzgerald Kemiedy, All-American boy. bit rich. perhaps, but that is not too big a handicap in the land of the mighty dollar. And, anyway, Kennedy is not ostentations with it. He is intellectual, but again not in the way to damn him as an egg-head.
America is pleased that Jackie Kennedy, the President's wife, is al astriting game. In Junity, this year. she was by w overwhelming chosen majority of 2,500 American style experts and sockety leaders as the best dreema wasan in the & du ld
Fashion
n
thing I want to take back to France from America is the beautiful Mrs Kennerly,"
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But . Jarquellise Bouvier Kennedy is not эти All- American.
She cats French food, the Ikes French clothes--although after a big furur she now has American couturier, She mints foxes, she is arty, she dislikes polities and unlike al- Inst every liter American woman who is socially prominent elther in the middle-west hiek town or New York or Washing ton Jackie
Kennedy is not s "joiner,"
Tradition
even me far as fashion Yet goes, Jackie Kennedy snows independent turns of mind. She Eas Muck to the longish boolant Lair style that has long gone out of favour. Or rather hat. Now, puder her lead it is sweeping An-rica And from Maine to Albuquerque every other woman feems to be wearing the ment
And her comment on that ghurt Jacket sult and small pill-rent American family tradition bu hat
of togetherness "My husband has his personal interests and so have 1 is almost sacrilegious. Amerienas do not like any members of their community to bu different. pareularly their First Lady. They like to imagine her not only
Amerlea is proud not only the handsomeness of the presidential couple but also of the young family
ruttug
they
Then there was the reception Jackie got whet she came with President Kennedy to Europe for the veing with Khrushchev and then the talts with General de Gaulle and Harold Macmillan How America loved the way Jackie captivated the hearts of the people who mobbed her and the world leaders who met her.
The guy
Declarest Khrushcher on being asked by photographers to pose stuiting hamis with President Kennedy: "I would rather shake hands with her.
The President at it this way: "I'm the guy who came to Europe with Jackie Kennedy
In de Gaulle she bad alrearly inspired he thought expressed on a visit to America "The only
Kavanaugh
soft spot for the 1. have a mysterious glamour of royalty.
But royally, or its equivalent, must be kept firmly in its place. Thus, when the ever smiling Jackle Kemedy would not speak to the press on a New York visit, a reporter had this to say: "Who does this dame think the is."
Exclusive
Who does Jackie Kennedy think she is, why bsn't this young woman who looks Nke the Hollywood ideal of the girl next door as friendly as the girl next door?
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
A year's study in Paris at the Sorbonne enabled her to and what she wanted in Ban elegance to match her tastes, in books, in art, in food.
John Kennedy began taking
an interest in art and entertain ing at the Kennely household became a mixture of the arly and the political,
Jaekle
their father will be away much
of the time she must more time with them.
spend
Can she maintain her degree of independence?
it
Thu fact is that even in Amerien few people have Jackie Kennedy next door. She comes from the nearest thing to an aristocracy that, America will
She has been pursuing This then, was the girl who But on some things edmit to having.
In 1953 married Senator John Kennedy has dug in her heels. for a long time, At the age out with her The Bouviers
been Fitzgerald Kennedy, by then She delled a Presidential ult of four, while have established in
to stop fox hunting nurse, she wandered away. To since the leading member of the politi- matum America
Analty following a lot of criticisini. the policeman who 1814 when Michael Bonvier came eal clan Kennedy.
found her she sald: "My nurse to Philadelphia from France to become a prosperous importer.
They became increasingly res- pected and established and in 1928 the highlight of the season was when John Bouvier III married Janet
of the Lee wealthy banking family.
Their eating the same
daughter Jacqueline, and her younger food as they, but to picture her born in 1929. donning apron and rustling up sister Lee were educated at the same sort of exclusive establish- a ment and potato dinner for her husband
ments and led the sort of ex- clusive sheltered lives as the
with a good hunk of bilberry ple to follow,
One cannot Imagine Jackie Kennedy rustling up a dinner. And If she did it would more likely be ante a Ia bonne femme,
Jackie Kennedy is aloof, As the man in the crowd said as she swept past unsmiling en an ficial function "Gee, she's soria like a queen, isn't she,"
Ever smiling
He could not conceal the awe In his voice. Americans, despite what they read in history books about colonial life under George
daughters of the English arista- cracy.
Challenge
But even in those early days friends noticed an aloof Inde- pondence about her. Later when she entered top American society it was again said of her that she was aloof and reserved although everyone liited her.
Jackle herself recalls that she enjoyed the noolal round but felt she was floundering and ald noi want to marry Into that sort of life.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Clock's Grandchildren
-One Is Named Alarm, The Other Cuckoo-
By MAX TRELL
TEDDY
the Stuftedi Bear, waddled up to the tall old Cluck that stood at the foot of the stairs, He stood with his hands on his hips and looked The old Clock straight in the face.
The old Clect stood with ils hends in front of numbers and tooted Teddy straight in his
Spec.
"Tick!" Tock! looking
Asks question
!
said the old Clock.
It said. "What are you 1?"
**I'm looking at you. old Cloch," said Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, "Are you à Grandfather Clock?"
"I am," replied the old Clock. When he learned this. Teddy Rooked the Grandfather Clock In the face even harder Blan
Finally Teddy said: before,
"If you're a Grundfather Clock, where are your
Grand- children?"
Dut
laughed.
tkk!"
Just faughed
the old Clock
sure the old Clock didn't have
any Grandchildreu,
"One of them As in the said the Grandfather kitchen," Clock
"You mean that little Clock that hangs on the wall, right over the ice box?" Teddy usked. Another grandchild
"Oh yes. And I have another Grandchild. He lives in the bed-
Els name is Alarm!" room.
"Alarm?" repeated Teddy. "Yes, ck-tock-Alarm Clock! Thas his full name. He' n very bright little leker. He never oversleeps,"
cure
"Yes," said Teddy, who didn't much for Master Alarm Clock, and he wakes up every- body in the whole house."
Ho was shocked
"Are you a Grandfather Clock?" nalled Teddy,
"I think she's very funny." sold Teddy. "She's always open- in her door and calling out the
time.
"That's her job." sald the old clock. "And she does it well" Teddy osited the old Grand- father Clock how old It was,
About 150 years old," it answered. "I've been in thin "Tick, lek, tiek," laughed the
Clock, "That's what he's family for many years. And I old
havoni lost any time, either. supposed to do.
You then I have another I'm very careful of it. "And
careful of time, little Grandchild, You'll find her ought to bo in the Children's room. Her too. name is Cucicoo,"
I'll
Well, it's getting lalo. "Oh," sakt Teddy, and he have to tell everybody It's Ume nado a face, "Cuckoo Clock." to go to bed,"
The marriage presented A Although she once worked is lost."
on the big challenge to both parties. as a photographer Polities bored Jackie Ken Washington Times
Herald nedy, so dla politicians. Arty
Jackie Kennedy does not like personal publicity, "It's rather Lypes had the same effect on
Irightening to lose your anony- her husband.
mity at 31," she has said.
It is reported that the early years of marriage were a strain
until both sides got down to making concessions. Jackle re- sorting out the difficulties and
fused to become completely immersed Kennedy family
in the rumbustious but she did take an interest in polities and took a course in American bis- Lory. She also learned golf and water skiing.
Refuses
D
She refuses to become full time publie figure not only for her own sake but also for that of her children. She does not want her children to grow up with nurses and secret ser- vicemen and declares that
LADY LUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12
21- LIBRA
AQUARIUS (January
February 19): Keep out of an affair which is none of ⚫ your business, and which would only be complicated by your interference.
PISCES (February 20-March 201: You would find enough In common with a person born under Capricorn to he able to disregard your points of difference. ARIES (March 21-April 191: Don't stand on ceremony with a comparative stran ger if you have a mutual desire to meet soon agulu. TAURUS (April 26-May 20): Keep your emotions well check if you don't want to alarm a very shy person of the opposite Rex, GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Stick to your determination not to give way in a matter of considerable importance to you.
CANCER (June 22-July 21):
Make allowancen for an un-f expected
whon оxpense allocating your funds for the next few weeks.
LEO (July 22-August 21): By apologising too profune- ly for a slight indiscretion you may give it an import- ance it doesn't deserve.
VIRGO just
"Don't
like You
Cudroo And with that i guldenly Tick-teks-llckt" it went. "My Grandchildren....
tick-lick- Clock?" asked the old Clock, started striking
the hours - atle shocked. He had always "Boom, boom, boom boom PYED, where arc they?" thought that everyone liked bed, bed, bed!"
And that's where Teddy weini „Teddy acked again, for he wan Cuckoo Clocks.
(Angust 22- September 22): With the right approach you can en- Het the help of someone who in usually slow to oxert himself,
(September
#9
23-
October 22): Don't rush matters if you find it im- possible to finish a certain job today. SCORPIO (October 23. November 21); An invita- tion to a neighbour's home will dispel some misgivings you had about his attitude. SAGITTARIUS (November 22-;
Decumber 21): On compar- ing notes with a friend,
be surprised you will find that your holidays may be spont very near to each other. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): Re-examine the purchases you intended making today, as you may be able to plan them more economically.
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If
YOUR LUCKY CARD:
today is your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what game you may he playing, ought to be the KING of SPADES.
DON'T ARGUE
JACOBY on BRIDGE
HERE in a hand played re-
cently in Greenfield, Ohio,
one
Dr Charles Pheanis, who sai Soulb, overcalled with spade. West
North pansed. Jumpect tu three spades and
The doctor
pinyed it
making four nuit.
As you can see, belongs to Fast and will have
there,
NORTH A307042
10
0^
406532
WEST
EAST (D)
45
KJ003 +632
A1074
ሓሊ
AQA
K70754
the hand West whe no translites making five diamonds anel what eRu 'make ye hearts if they Dud the correct line of play.
Needless fo sny, it Dr Pliconis had not made his weak, but proper, spade over- call West would have respond- ed and East and West would hove gone a long way in the bidding.
♥CORD Seride 44,
West
1 Pasa
The bidding has been!
Norths Ewat South Doublo 14
1 N.T. 2 A Pasa
7 You, Soul, hold: AKJĀ VAI +91965 AKJIT
What do you do?
A-Bid three spades. Your pariner may be showing a spade sult in which case you have a rale for him. If he is cue bid- dlog your three spade bid will tell him that you have spade strength.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner has overcalled an opening heart bid with one apade. You hold:
AKET 32 AQUVC 4032
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
Bust
BOUT
KJA
AKQ1003
8752
+Q100
Q
No one vulnerable
10 14
Bouth West NorËN
Pass SA PAR Pasa Pako
Opening lead—◊ 2
I have two reasons for com- menting on the hand. The first Is that West should have bld two diamonds over South's one spade. Two hearts would have been nu overbid but the post was bad.
Even then East and West should not have been shut out, Enst should have doubled North's three spade bid for take out, Most people don't know that this type of double is for take out, but it is.
Had Enst made this high lovel take { clubje West would have gone to four hearts and inter un to Ave diamonds in the event that North and South bld four spades,
Rupert and the Rugger Match-8
"What on earth have you been doing?" she demands.
"Where have you been? I've been expecting you for ever so long I Why didn't Uncle Bruno bring you home?
Come along this She grabs Rupert and Bill and Algy creep away in fright.
The ground under the grass is soft and the little pala tumble about until they are breathless. They are just about to laugh at each other because of the "mess they are in when a sudden call atarties
Велг them and Mrs appears. She stares on horror.
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