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0-19Rev.6-1-61 Polson Belmont ohr lehan Conrgo Deoac Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Ingram Gandy Fhewashington Merry-Ge-Round White House Pace Has Quickened. They work long, irregular derson, is covering the Wash- his Senate office, not so much They seldom are too busy, ington front. to pry as to keep tabs on his however, for a little sophisti- By Jack Anderson output. cated horseplay. The stately White House, a Once he wandered into the Lanky, likeable Mike Feld- White House's backoffices man, who was abandoned as a has changed dramatically dur-back as the Roosevelt regime)|White House, came in for some ing the,seven had never seen a President kidding for his work on the. months since at close quarters. President's message to Con- John F.Ken- One of them, Lucille Tutt, gress on the highway program. nedy moved in. looked up from her typewriter "This must be a crash pro- Ikeconduct- [to see JFK framed in the door-gram," Feldman . wrote ear- edaffairsof way. nestly. But Ted Sorensen, the state not only "Oh! Good morning, Mr.No. 1 aide, suggested dryly 62-48771-A - by the book but President," she gasped, al-that it might be poor politics by..the clock. though the time was 6 p. m.for the President to advocate All papers were [Now her colleagues always a "crash" program for high- NOT RECORDED p.r.ocessed greet her with an elaborate ways. 199 SEP, 6.1961 through chan- Anderson The Washington Post and nels, were what time of day it is. never passed up to the Presi- Times Herald dent without the proper en-Powers Bows The President, whose owH The Washington Baily News |sense of humor'is dry as a dorsements. Another time, a reporter formartini, likes to join in the. The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror To.ease the tension, some New York Daily News up signal. and verses. Most prolific is the New York Post and called "Dave! Kennedy has junked most Powers bounded to his feet,bland, brilliant Sorensen who The New York Times of Ike's formality. He prefers|tripped over' an ash tray, and can dash.off doggerel like an The Worker to work with small, informal|ended up doing a deep, in-|amateur Hammerstein.. without In a poetic tribute to his The New Leader The Wall Street Journal also prowls around the White he got a presidential belly-cently about his illegible hand- Date House and holds spontaneous, chuckle. writing. Wrote Sorensen: unscheduled conferences inKennedy ... has surrounded"whose works are illegible-- the corridors, himself with brainy young or does this say illegal? Nobody knows when the men,most of them Ivy LeaguersWho has the sense of a hare President will poke his shock-[of the pipe-and-sweater look. and the strength of-an head intg an ofice.If theLike their chief, most are in eagle?