WOMEN
BY MAXIMILLIEN de
LAFAYETTE
AMERICA’S
MOST TALENTED LADIES:
1-Linda Bird Francke
(The ghostwriter of Rosalyn Carter, Geraldine Ferraro and Jihan Sadat’s
bestsellers) 2- Leontyne Price 3-Wendy Rose 4-Alice Lees 5-Joan Danziger
6-Denise Austin 7-Mary Lide (Author of “Ann of Cambray”) 8-Dina Merrill
9-Linda Pastan (Author of “A Fraction of Darkness”) 10- Anna Hart (Mezzo
Soprano).
AMERICA’S MOST RESPECTED
AND ADMIRED
LADIES:
1-Former First
Lady, Nancy Reagan 2-Former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson 3-Former First
Lady, Rosalyn Carter 4-Former First Lady Barbara Bush 5-Helen Hayes
6-Katharine Graham 7-Clare Boothe Luce 8-Lena Horne 9-Catherine Shouse
10-Zelda Fichandler.
AMERICA’S SEXIEST WOMEN AS
REMEMBERED BY WASHINGTON:
These are the American women who made “Fureur
et Rage”. The list was selected by Douglas Kiker and inspired the one and only
Art Buchwald to write an elaborate article on the subject. The article was
published in the Washingtonian Magazine, on November 1, 1973. America’s
sexiest women, back then, were:1-Diane Sawyer 2-Melinda Nix 3-Barbara Howar
4-Amanda Zimmerman 5-Kay Graham 6-Mieke Tunney 7-Diana Knight 8-Judy
Claxton 9-Ferrell Rutledge.
On Diane Sawyer:
Diane Sawyer works for for the White House Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler. She
is an extra pair of eyes for Ziggy Ziegler, an extra brain. Her principal job
is to monitor the media –newspapers, magazines, radio and television- to spot
potential trouble and controversy and alert Ziegler to this. Diane is 26, a
former Miss Teenage America. She got her job at The White House the way most
women get good jobs in Washington. Diane is so pretty and poised that new
reporters who come to The White House usually are put off by her. Kissinger
dates her occasionally. So do I.
On Melinda Nix:
She is a reporter for Washington’s Channel 7. How did she become a reporter?
Funny story. She started out by peddling a story to the National Enquirer,
after that weekly began dealing with more serious and substantive subjects
than Kennedy gossip and Siamese twin horror stories. Her first story was about
a New York bank which had arranged to have its records buried in an
underground vault so debts could still be collected in the aftermath of a
nuclear holocaust. She came up with a lot of stuff like that. She lives in a
big, old rambling apartment filled with green plants and waterbeds.
Physically, she is a big woman, big bones, big sexy teeth, big mind…
On Barbara Howar: That’s
right, by God, Barbara Howar. One of the sexiest women this town will ever
see.