Highballs
“If you can bounce high,
bounce for her too….”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, epigraph to
The Great Gatsby
Magazine purchased at
newsstand May 14, 2003:
A Whiff of Camelot
as ‘West Wing’
Ends an Era
– New York Times,
May 14, 2003
Song title from the
June Carter Cash album “Press On“:
“Gatsby’s Restaurant”
From The Great Gatsby, Chapter Four:
“Highballs?” asked the head waiter.
“This is a nice restaurant here,”
said Mr. Wolfsheim, looking at the
Presbyterian nymphs on the ceiling.
Mimi Beardsley, JFK playmate,
in the news on May 15, 2003
On JFK’s plane trips:
“Whenever the President traveled,
members of the press staff traveled as well.
You always have a press secretary
and a couple of girls traveling….
Mimi, who obviously couldn’t perform
any function at all, made all the trips!”
Apparently there was some function….
“Don’t forget the coffee!”
– Punchline from the film
“Good Will Hunting.”