The Press: All About Mamie

At Arizona's Maine Chance health-and-beauty farm, where Mamie Eisenhower wound up a 14-day course this week, news of the First Lady was harder to come by than a banana split. But last week the staid Oregon Journal (circ. 180,021) cracked the security curtain with a closeup of Mamie that brought the outside world up to date on her weight (it's down), appearance (she "looked years younger") and morale (she missed Ike). Author of the Journal's gossip exclusive was a fellow guest, Esma Jackson, widow of longtime Journal Publisher Philip L. Jackson.

Newshen Jackson reported that Mamie "entered into the regime rather slowly...

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