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...ANGUS L. MACLEAN JR. San Francisco...
...always interesting. He hemmed through Kipling's Recessional, hawed through the parable of the talents-and needled the liberals unmercifully. "I have great affection for the Senator from Tennessee," he cooed at Gore. "He and I have a great deal in common, including bull-that is, Angus bulls."* When he successfully escaped from a semantics trap baited by Douglas, the Illinoisan tossed him a barbed Plutarchian salute: "We will meet again at Philippi." Cracked Kerr: "I hope we will meet in Washington before that." Occasionally, Kerr got as good as he gave. When Gore referred to "the liquidity position...
...Kerr has an Angus herd of 7,000, including 450 bulls. Gore has no cattle, two bulls...
...bring the cathedral to its present grandeur. At today's costs, $15 million more will be needed to finish it down to its final gargoyle and grotesque. If the money were now in hand, the job could be finished within 15 years. Progress, says the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal bishop of Washington, depends "on very substantial legacies and gifts." The present construction fund-mainly the bequest of the late Harriette Chandler Sheldon and her brother James, of a New York banking family-amounts to four million dollars...
Because Mr. Angus Wilson is, among many other things, an acute chronicler of the Welfare State, he has incurred the unfortunate label of "traditional novelist"--the nastiest epithet in the current critical lexicon. Mr. Wilson's novels are by this means arbitrarily damned to comparisons with the matronly, jovial and encyclopaedic shades (respectively) of George Eliot, Charles Dickens and John Galsworthy...