Supporters of Jimmy Carter have been calling her two-faced ever since she dumped the incumbent to support Edward Kennedy's quest for the presidency. Speaking cosmetically rather than politically, however, Chicago's Democratic Mayor Jane Byrne really is. The Windy City's feisty mayor is given to impromptu press conferences at which she appears without television makeup. Embarrassed by the bags beneath her eyes that looked particularly heavy under bright TV lights, Byrne, 45, slipped into a hospital over Thanksgiving for a facelift. Reappearing in public last week, the mayor said nothing about her operation...
People, Dec. 17, 1979
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