People

By E. Graydon Carter

An old political hand like former Vice President Walter Mondale knows a little something about catching the camera's eye. After making his first appearance as "current affairs specialist" on ABC's Good Morning America, he quickly upstaged Host David Hartman with a whistle-stop wave. Mondale, 53, and Hartman, 46, bantered mostly about the pitfalls of finding post-Veep employment. But in future sunrise summits, says Fritz, "we're going to talk about how Government works." Though the former Vice President had to get up at 5:30 a.m. to prepare for his morning glory, he elected to go on without makeup. "God gave me the face I have," he says, "and I'll just have to make do with what I've got."

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With work on his White House memoirs proving "to be enjoyable ... rather than an unpleasant chore," former President Jimmy Carter, 56, took time off to write a letter to some 500 ex-Administration staffers, giving them a folksy follow-up to his Oval Office days. "I am settling into a fairly regular routine," he writes, "rising quite early, working at the remarkable word-processing machine until daylight, running two or three miles and later during the day continuing to work on the book several hours." The down-home updater also includes domestic news. Rosalynn, 53, "has almost gotten our home liveable and will soon begin her own book." Chip, 31, "is taking care of our farms and our business affairs," and Amy, 13, "is going to a very good school about 20 minutes away." In fact, the former President seems downright hooked on Plains living. Says Jimmy: "I do not feel under any pressure --except to be in a good north Georgia trout stream now that it's fishing season."

She was a mere face in the crowd when she received a bachelor of arts degree from Manhattanville College, outside New York City, in 1958. But when she was awarded her master's degree in education from Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass., Joan Kennedy, 44, seemed in a class by herself. Though she has been on her own for the past three years, Joan was joined by her immediate Kennedy clan--estranged Husband Senator Edward Kennedy, 49, Daughter Kara, 20, and Sons Teddy Jr., 19, and Patrick, 13. The new graduate's future plans: life as a single, and a career involving music and children.

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He was known for his beasts. She was known for her beauty. And things just seemed to click when Wildlife Photographer and Author (The End of the Game) Peter Beard, 43, and Model Cheryl Tiegs, 33, whose sun-scrubbed looks have become a fixture on magazine covers, were thrown together on an African television safari in 1978. Last week at Long Island's Montauk Community Church, they were married. Tiegs' jungle jaunt had also turned her into an elephant aficionado, and at the wedding reception, held beneath a vast white tent on the rugged cliffs of Montauk, it was evident that the beauty had not forgotten her beast. Over the buffet siding of oysters, mussels and crab fingers stood a glistening ice sculpture--of an elephant.

--By E. Graydon Carter

On the Record

Joe Langley, president of Southern Pacific Title Co., after Employee Michael Reagan used President Reagan's name in letters seeking military contracts: "I asked him if he had a letter of resignation, and he said his father had told him not to write any more letters."

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 54, Democratic Senator from New York, suggesting that the workman's plastic cover be put back on the new Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building, a $137 million eyesore: "Even in a democracy, there are things it is as well the people do not know about their Government."

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