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...measure of quiet satisfaction from the fact that Ward's new free-spending management, faced with six-month earnings of $5,000,000 v. $10 million the first half of 1959, had to halve Ward's quarterly dividend. Last week, just a few days be- fore his 87th birthday, Sewell Avery died of a cerebral hemorrhage...
This represents an unfortunate defeat for Kennedy because O'Connor's vote could have been very important in the 87th Congress. In order to carry through his forward-looking program, the new President will need enough liberal votes, both Democrat and Republican, to offset the recalcitrant coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. And unhappily, O'Connor was not the only Kennedy supporter beaten in this strange national election...
This may have been phrenology's finest hour. Bernard Baruch rose to become a wizard of Wall Street, a philanthropist, sportsman, landed squire, patriot, "adviser to Presidents," park-bench sage, and above all, a continuing American legend. Timed to appear on his 87th birthday, this first volume of his autobiography tells only half the Baruch story, barely reaching his World War I stint as czar of the War Industries Board (a companion volume in the fall of '58 will bring the saga up to date). The book packs no surprises, but in its engaging, unpretentious...
...Gallant Name. In a single year Cadet Foucauld spent 21 days in simple arrest, 45 days in disciplinary arrest; he graduated 87th in a class of 87. He was cashiered from his regiment for taking his mistress Mimi along with him to Algeria. But later, when his old outfit, the 4th Hussars, ran into sticky fighting against the Arabs. Foucauld tossed Mistress Mimi aside, wangled reinstatement, and made a gallant name for himself. He never went back to his foie gras and champagne. Instead, at 29. he returned to the church, joined the Trappists, then decided that the Trappist austerities...
Erich Segal, a classics major tracing the Greek origins of the marathon, finished 87th in 3:43.32. "I went out fast and really skyrocketed when I heard those cheers at Wellesley," he said, but my legs gave out when I reached the Newton hills...