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PAGE SEVEN THE NEWS PALLADIUM, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1968 New Book Tells All Jackie's Secretary Reveals Controversies With 17 yachting invitations in a year, the job seems ideal for a single girl, but Miss Baldrige says "It was a relief to get away from that aspect of it. One was not being asked for one's self. "My father had been in public life long enough to know that I should beware. 1 found out this was true because there was always a hooker on everything.

I got out in time not to bt cynical." problem with classical music. To keep him from applauding at the wrong time, Miss Baldrige said she worked out a door opening system to signify the end of a number. There was, she writes, Mrs. Kennedy's duel in chic with the Iranian Empress Farah who had brought all her royal jewels to a White House visit. The First Lady won the game by dressing with stark simplicity, jewel-less except for a few sparklers on her ears and in her mother of two.

"I would like to have included a lot of other things, but they would have been misunderstood or misinterpreted," she said in a telephone interview recently. Nevertheless, the 337-page autobiography, of which 14fi pages are about her job at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, contains some colorful close ups of the handsome Kennedy family in the White House. There was the President's quality 18kt. gold container worth several thousand dollars, but got it back. Clandestinely operated a short wave radio in the basement of the U.S.

Embassy in Rome without the ambassador's knowledge to inform India and Pakistan of changes in Mrs. Kennedy's schedule. Though she has not forgotten the catastrophies, "they seem amusing to me now," said the tall, big-boned blonde who is in private life Mrs. Robert Hollensteiner, By JEAN SPRAIN WILSON AP Newsfeatures Writer NEW YORK (AP) was without controversy. The kitchen could not even make a peanut butter sandwich without making someone 111.

set." Letitia Baldrige, former social secretary to Mrs. John F. Kennedy, made this observation about about her White HoUse job in a happy autobiography, "Of Diamonds and Diplomats," to be published by Houghton Mifflin Sept. 16. Books relating to Mrs.

Kennedy are not without controversy. Yet Miss Baldrige, now a housewife, mother and director of her own Chicago public relations firm, is confident the former First Lady will have no objection to this one. "She knows I would not be indiscreet," said Miss Baldrige. "Everything was already is the papers, but I told what lay behind." "What lay behind," as she recollects sounds like a rollicking situation comedy with Lucille Ball and the Marx brothers. Some snippets, recounted by Miss Baldridge: In her first and last news conference in Washington the Miami-born, Omaha-bred, Farmington-andVas-sar-educated former secretary to Clare Boothe Lsice too sliply described her new boss as "a woman who has everything, including the President of the United States;" Deprecatingly referred to club women as "those vast hordes of females; Unwittingly jarred the traditionalists by giving the impression that Mrs.

Kennedy would hang modern art in the White House; Happlessly did nothing to dispel a notion among the WHO SWITCHED THE PILLS WITH THE ASPIRIIIS? 20th Century Fox presents DEBORAH KERR DAVID I1IVEII round the clock with 4 ILltR C00i: Off MATUW.t OMEN press that a feud existed between Mrs. Dwight senhower and the new First Lady. Soothed by the president's father Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, consoled by her own father, a veteran Republican congressman, and encouraged by Mrs. Kennedy, Miss Baldrige says she and her distaff staff nevertheless: Angered Women's Christian Temperance Union by setting up a bar at the first White House party, not realizing they were breaking a dry tradition and on Sunday at that. Insulted a Catholic priest by mistakenly sending a form letter congratulating him on the birth of a son.

Panicked the American Embassy in India by sending ahead of Mrs. Kennedy's visit standard cowhide framed photos to the land of the sacred cow. Silver replacements were purchased in Rome in the nick of time. Alarmed the Secret Service, and nearly got arrested by Venezueland police as a saboteur, by halting the presidential motorcade in a dangerous Communist sector in order to rescue some clothes and documents during a Venezualan visit. Gave to Mexican orphanages, along with Mrs.

Kennedy's flowers, a museum Events Set men In Ganges GANGES The Baptist Women's Mission Circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Arnold Green Wednesday, Sept. 18. The program Come of Age." will be given by Mrs. Roy Nye.

The Women's Society of Christian Service of the nited Methodist church will meet in the church Tuesday, Sept. 17. CLUBS CHURCH FAMILY ASHION SCHOOL HOME SOCIETY 1 mmmi ifiiss Dixson Troth Revealed Color by Deluxe Please Set It From The Beginning the first comedy about the pill! 1 speak About Trip NOW AUTllJFTHISMOTroirtiCTirH SHOSLD BS KEPT CUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN! i- 1 FOX IH1IIN IKHTIH TONITE mm THRU BRIDGMAN Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ackerman, Box 196, Bridgman, announce the engagement' of daughter, Candace Fay, to -Michael A- m-o Burgenerr son of Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Burgener, Anna, 111. Miss Ackerman, a graduate of Bridgman high school, attended Lake Michigan college. She is a junior at St. Mary's college at Notre Dame, Ind.

Her fiance, a graduate of Marion high school, Marion, 111., will graduate from the University of Notre Dame in January. He has been a member of the varsity football team for four years. No date has been set for the wedding. TUESDAY 39 South 925-3682 tell of her experiences in Russia and display articles from abroad when she addresses the Benton Harbor-St. Joseph Federation of Women's clubs at the first meeting of the new season.

Monday, Sept. 16. The meeting is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at Josephine Morton Memorial clubhouse in Benton Harbor. Hostesses will be members of the Benton llarbor-St.

Joseph Altrusa club, the Benton Harbor Garden club, and the B'nai B'rith 3 Giant Action-Packed Hits! DEM 1st TWIN CITY SHOWING PARTIES BANQUETS MISS ACKERMAN gambler for groups of any size Twin Cities Symphonic Society gunfire preacher COCKTAILS MIXED DRINKS PHONE 926-6109 for information Announces its 1968-1969 18th Annual Concert Season HENDRIK DE BLIJ, Resident Conductor St. Joseph High School Auditorium Mi I A card cheat was then all hell broke loose! Margot Courtrigrt, pianist Saint-Saens "Concerto in minftr" Concert 1 Octobir 27,1968 8:15 P.M. OF HOLIDAY INN, 1-94 EXIT 28 ALSO INMANS IN THE HOLIDAY INNS ON 1-94, GALESBURG ALBION torn the producer of The Sons otKilie Elder, Cunfight at the CokjI and UitTrainttomCunhill. Christmas Program "Hodie" by Vaughan Williams Cantata with soloists, Choir from Andrews University, Boys Choir means "This Day" the day Christ was born. Concert 2 Dtc 8,1968 3:33 PJ.I IN COLOR 1 xv KEKDKIX de BLIJ tsiltnt Conductor Concert 3 February 23, 1969 4:00 P.M.

NOWthku TUESDAY Clark Brody, Clarinetist Clarinet soloist from Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing Mozart's "Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra" The hanging was the best show in town. But they made two mistakes. They hung the wrong man and they didn't finish the job. Concert 4 March 30, 1969 8:15 P.M. TTTITIW fr Mari Tsumura, violinist "A mistress of the bow, Miss Tsumura commands a big, round, expensive tone, rich in sonorous mellowness.

21 years of age and Japanese born. Been in this country for 3 years. Helen Boatwright, soprano An audio-visual delight. Regal in appearance and voice, she can "melt-you with the tenderness of a single note, and enchant you with the exquisite curve of a single 'lorocco- Concert 5 April 27, 1969 8:15 P.M. the double MARI TSUMURA VIOLINIST crossroads of the MEMBERSHIPS NOW AVAILABLE -For information call 925-5412 world! if -4 Twin Cities Symphonic Society 201 Fidelity Bldg.

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