THE CHRISTINA, in which Mr. Onassis, Mrs. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy cruised Aegean Sea in August AStudyinGlamour—andCourage The Quest of Beauty World Admired Her Dominant in Life Fortitude in Time of Mrs. Kennedy of Bereavement

By JUDY KLEMESRUD ser,% When Jacqueline Bouvier, who aidreari.„14 a • • became Mrs. John F. Kennedy, ,4 b araz was a 14-year-old girl summer. g ion ii§w5 ing in East Hampton, L. L, in ••' • 17.7'4'3- L 1943, she wrote a poem called 1410FONNES "Sailing," which was later $ printed in The East Hampton ict/i/t,r Star. One of her verses read: Le$ I only care for the lonely sea, And I always will, I know, For the love of the sea is born The New York Times Dd. 15, TM in me, Arrow shows Onassis' isle It will never let me go. Her love of the sea is one thing Mrs. Kennedy will not have to give up when she is married to Aristotle Onassis, the 62-year-old figure. For one of Mr. Onassis' favorite pastimes is sailing his luxurious yacht, Christina, all, over the world. He is also a man who can support her in the manner to which she has always been ac- customed. When Mrs. Kennedy was in the White House it, was generally agreed she spent; $50,000 a year on clothes. I And in recent years he has: turned into something of a super consumer of fashion, to ing to favor the designs of Val- entino, an Italian whose beaded evening gowns start around 55,000. Since her teens, the pursuit of beauty has dominated Mrs. Kennedy's life. At the age of Ig, when she was presented to society at Newport, R. I., Cholly Knickerbocker, the so- ciety columnist, named her "No. 1 Dela of the Year." But it was not until 1960 that the American public became aware of her glamour-and chic. That happened shortly be- fore the Presidential election, when several magazinestt printed color photographs taken of her at Hyannis Port, in which she was wearing an orange sweater with shocking pink slacks. Her hair was warn in the famous style that later swept the country, along with her custom of wear- ing three-strand pearls and her. She left behind in the White House a a monument to herself —the historic antiques she col- lected for the refurbishing of the President's home in a man- ner serving as a reminder of the families who had lived there in earlier times. Mrs. Kennedy) loires to play with her children, Caroline, 11, and John, 7. She frequently ac- companies Caroline to her bal- let _class, carrying the girl's bag of tights and slippers. where her parents were spend- "Isn't it exciting?" she said ing the weekend. Her father, once as she watched Caroline John V. Bouvier 3d, was a change into her leotards. "I wealthy stockbroker.. Her wish I were in the class," she mother, the former Janet Lee, added. also came from a moneyed and Since her husband's death socially prominent family. Mrs. Kennedy has socialized The Bouviers were divorced mainly with persons prominent in 1940, and Mrs. Bouvier sub- in politics, fashion and the arts. sequently was married to Hugh Her frequent globe-trotting D. Auchincloss, a millionaire trips have taken her to Mex- Washington broker. ico, Hawaii, Italy and Cam- Mrs. Kennedy went to all bodia, among other places. the "proper" schools — Miss There had been much specu- Chapin's in New York and Miss latiOn that she might marry Porter's in Farmington, Conn. her frequent escort, Lord Har- She spent two years at Vassar lech, 50, Britain's former Am- and a year at the Sorbonne, bassador to the . during which she recalls her- Mrs. Kennedy had often told self as "a chubby little thing friends that she wanted to re- eating pastries and studying marry, but that she thought with inky fingers half the !ilie could never find a man night." the equal of John F. Kennedy. She enrolled in George Washington University and was graduated in 1951. About the same time she took her first and only job—as a $42.50- a-week inquiring photographer for The Washington Times- Herald. It ended with an assignment to London for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in June, 1953. That same month she became engaged to Senator John F. Kennedy. They were married three months later—on Sept. 12, 1953—at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Newport R.I, L ,s Thee Mos Rev. ev Richarda ni chd a ardt J. Cushing, Archbishop of Bos- ton. The wedding was attended several Senators pillboxhats. I least one Governor. The money she spends on When an assassin's bullet clothes has always been a sore struck down President Kennedy point. When asked if it was on Nov. 22, 1963, her cour- true, as reported in Women's age in the face of tragedy Wear Daily, that she and her stirred admiration throughout mother-in-law, Mrs. Joseph P. the world. Kennedy, spend $30,000 a year Mrs. Kennedy was riding be- on Paris fashions alone, she side her husband in the Dallas shot back: motorcade when he was mor- "I couldn't spend that much tally wounded and fell bleeding unless I wore sable underwear." into her lap. With the blood- Mrs. Kennedy, now 39 years stains still on her pink suit, old, has a thick mane of chest- Mrs. Kennedy came back to nut-colored hair, a whispery Washington to plan in minute voice and the slender 5-foot-7 detail the funeral for the slairi figure of a fashion mode. A re- President. porter's discovery that she After the Mrs. wears size 10A shoes was pub- Kennedy moved first to George- lished throughout the world. town, then to a cooperative She is also an incessant chain apartment in New York at smoker. 1940 Fifth Avenue overlooking Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was Central Park. The benches born on a Sunday morning, across from her apartment July 28, 1929, in the Long Is- building are often filled with land resort of Southampton, people eager for a glance of