Gossip Roundup: So August

The Daily Briefing is on vacation.

• Names & Faces: Morton Kondracke proposed to America’s Promise CEO Marguerite Sallee in Paris (proposed gossip column nickname: Mor-Marg)… National Championships of Rock Paper Scissors to bring deadpan irony to DC… Michael Graham benefiting from controversy… . Harry Reid ready to go a few rounds. [WP]
• Inside the Beltway: Maharishi calls for government buildings to face east… Charlie Rangel admits did cite “Willie Lynch” urban legend… . Pot tunnel to be filled by “expanding liquid foam cement.” Trippy. [WT]
• Rush and Malloy: Carole Radziwill’s memoir details how she broke news of JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette to Bessette’s mother. [NYDN]
• Page Six: Gay Americans James McGreevey and Golan Cipel working on competing tell-alls… . Bush to name Lisette M. Mondello, the daughter-in-law of Nassau Republican leader Joe Mondello, to be assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs [NYP, NYP]
• Cindy Adams: Garry Trudeau and Jane Pauley may have bought a home in Beekman Place residence… . Rudy Giuliani quips on judges. [NYP]

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