People, May 19, 1975

While President Ford fielded questions at his White House press conference, at least one photographer focused on him with special care. With three cameras slung over her jacket, Susan Ford, 17, wedged herself into the press ranks and began clicking away under the tutorial eye of presidential Photographer David Kennerly. Susan may be learning her craft more quickly than anyone realizes. As reporters clustered around the President at the close of his remarks, one onlooker jokingly suggested that Ford economize by firing Kennerly and hiring Susan. "That wouldn't save much," she shot back between pictures. "I don't come cheap." Her reputation thus defended, she boarded the presidential yacht Sequoia the following night to photograph the first floating Cabinet meeting on record. "That was longer than Gone With the Wind," remarked Actress Joanne Woodward following a film tribute to her and Husband Paul Newman in Manhattan last week. The program, which featured clips from 27 movies by Woodward and Newman, attracted Actresses Shelley Winters and Myrna Loy, Director Otto Preminger and some 2,800 well-heeled fans who contributed up to $250 apiece for seats at the Film Society of Lincoln Center benefit. "It's really a celebration of celluloid," quipped Newman, who sported a beard he had grown for his title role in Robert Altman's upcoming film, Buffalo Bill. Plainly relieved that his marathon round of interviews was coming to an end, Newman told his audience that he had come home one evening and complained, "I'm so sick of hearing my own voice." To which Wife Joanne had quickly replied, "Why were you listening?" "Lyndon Johnson used to tell me I wasn't made of steel, but I didn't believe him," recalled Arkansas Representative Wilbur Mills, returning to work after five months' treatment for alcoholism. Though his drinking problem cost him his 16-year chairmanship of the mighty House Ways and Means Committee, Mills showed more remorse than rancor as he settled back into his job. Alcoholism, he said, "affected my ability to reason, to concentrate. There were times when I just couldn't think and many times when I couldn't remember. Looking back on the problems with the [1974] health bill, I can see now that I just didn't have it in me then to deal with it properly."