There was hardly a decent restaurant in town, and not much theater beyond the pedestrian National Theatre down by the Treasury Department. Beautiful, self-possessed Mary Pinchot Meyer has inspired multiple books, articles, and most recently a limited TV series currently being written by David Seidler (The Kings Speech) for Warner Bros. himself.". But over the years, sensational fragments of the story (JFK, CIA) turned up. Janneys best childhood friend was Mary Meyers son. But proof of the web between the greasy killers in Dallas, their white-shoe puppet-masters in Washington (Janneys father among them, if the son is to be believed) and the murder of the ultimate dangerous blonde, Mary Meyer, may always remain tantalizingly out of reach. As she devolves into a weird hybrid of Perle Mesta and Nancy Drew, her sense of self-importance billows like a mushroom cloud. Mr. Meyer was a founding member of the United World Federalists, where he fought for controls on the use of atomic weapons. "