Want a quick break from the Mass. race? No? I don’t blame you — have one anyway. Below, Mark Steyn mentioned the Marilyn Monroe “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” Here’s a story that Henry Kissinger told at a memorial service-slash-concert for his friend Beverly Sills. Long after her career ended, she sang at a birthday party for HK. She imitated Marilyn — all breathy and whispery. Afterward, a foreign lady present — who was not so familiar with American culture — went up to Sills and said, “What a shame you have lost your voice.”
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Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.
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