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Since I took no pride of authorship in the CEP motion, the ROTC debate, while unpleasant in many of its respects, has not alone eventuated in what I should consider a vote of lack of confidence. Nevertheless, on issue after issue this winter the Faculty has disregarded the recommendation of its own committees and its own administrative officers, preferring to substitute the quickly formulated product of emotional debate for a considered judgement by people--including many besides myself--who had tried to weigh all the arguments heard at the Faculty meeting, and a number of others as well...
...perhaps because they can plan ahead in multi-annual cycles. Nixon's switch from defeat to law to renomination is a case in point. In his years of political exile between the wars, Winston Churchill distracted himself from defeat by tapping a wide range of other interests: painting, bricklaying, authorship and breeding butterflies. At the same time, he never once doubted his capacity to lead the nation...
...authorship of at least one successful fake-wine recipe was attributed by Italian police to Celso Sereni, an alleged Ferrari accomplice, who was said in court to have netted $3,000 a day from his association with Ferrari's thriving "wine" business. He was described in the press as "the Doctor Faust of the grape...
Defending Renoir's estate were his two sons, Cinema Director Jean (La Grande Illusion) and Ceramist Coco, and his grandson, Cameraman Claude. They contended that the Spaniard was merely a competent craftsman. "For there to be true co-authorship," argued the Renoirs' attorneys, "the law insists upon common inspiration and mutual control. Obviously in this case there was neither." Besides, the lawyers said, Guino has already received something of an added bonus-the family sponsored his career long after Renoir's death and even commissioned him to do a bust for the grave...
With money like that rolling in, Booker's bosses decided that corporate authorship was a profitable hedge against what Chairman David Powell, who succeeded Sir Jock, calls "the hazards of tropical agriculture." Thus the company has bought controlling interest in the works of such British authors as John and Penelope Mortimer, Gavin Lyall, Francis Clifford and Robert Bolt (A Man For All Seasons). Now, in its latest acquisition, Booker has signed on an author every bit as big as Ian Fleming. For an amount it refuses to disclose, the company has acquired 51% of everything published since...