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...Rectitude, he was certain, lay in Midwestern values, rock-ribbed Republicanism and college football. Just as surely, permissiveness led to social cataclysm, liberalism to national weakness. He built his personal philosophy on the lessons of war and football, and he saw numerous parallels between the two. His heroes were Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson and, naturally, General George Patton. "This whole country," the coach liked to say, "has been built on one thing-winning...
Rothschild says he did not go to Harvard because of the club, but he still readily concurs with his father's evaluation. From his office less than one block away from the club, where he works for a variety of businesses and charities, the former president of the Abraham and Straus department store chain views the club as primarily a service facility for people who have a common Harvard background...
Immediate exhumation carries certain risks, however. As McCutchen's Ike story shows, it is harder to do Eisenhower, say, than Abraham Lincoln. The film is supposedly taken from Kay Summersby's kiss-and-tell book about her wartime romance with the general, but there will be no kiss and very little tell in ABC'S version. "I've got to think about a very lovely woman who is the widow of the ex-President," McCutchen explains. "We'll leave it to the people who watch the show to make up their own minds...
...highly enough to include them in wills. More than 60 subscriptions have already passed on to other readers. Today, of course, the $60 investment is a blue chip. If a reader had purchased TIME at a newsstand every week during the past 49 years, he would have spent $788.65. Abraham Katz of Cambridge, Mass., however, regards his subscription as more than just a bargain. "To be a part of the magazine's growth during all these years," says the 75-year-old electrical-supplies distributor, "makes me very proud." We'll be proud to serve you perpetually...
...Agriculture Department, Foreman argues, used to cater solely to the interests of food processors and big farmers, and her goal is to make it "the people's department" that Abraham Lincoln had envisioned. The processors and many farmers complain that she is hurting agriculture, in part because she is calling for severe restrictions on food additives and for more detailed product labeling. Nebraska Republican Congresswoman Virginia Smith, expressing a view common in the farm belt, protested: "Carol Tucker Foreman, one of agriculture's biggest enemies, is at work right now discrediting the meat industry and causing the public to lose...