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Among the group leaders will be Barney Frank '62, director of the Institute's activities for undergraduates; Christopher Beal '63, graduate student at the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy; and John Steinbrunner, former executive secretary of the Presidential Task Force on Campaign Financing...
Having launched 20 new cigarette brands since he became president of the American Tobacco Co. in 1963, Robert Barney Walker has become known some what extravagantly as "Brand-a-Month Barney." While American has been concentrating chiefly on smokes, the rest of the industry has been on a merger spree, picking up products ranging from Chun King (Reynolds) to Clark Gum (Philip Morris). Now American is beginning to catch up with the trend, which began with the health scares of the late 50s, to ward profitable acquisitions as a hedge against poor cigarette sales prospects. Last May, American took over...
...Died. Barney Ross, 57, prizefighter, who won three (lightweight, junior welterweight and welterweight) world titles in the 1930s, and a couple of important other victories in later life; of throat cancer; in Chicago. The son of a Chicago shopkeeper, Ross was a bookish 14-year-old studying to be a Hebrew teacher when his father was murdered by two hoodlums, who subsequently went free on a technicality. Raging at the law, Barney took to the streets himself, finally became a fighter to feed his family. His boxing style was all guts-and so was his style as a U.S. Marine...
...magnolia-laden junk was all I could stand." Lion, published later by Whittlesey House, sold 250,000 copies. A more recent example is the history of Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, a shotgun attack on the Warren Commission. "We commissioned him to write it," says Publisher Barney Rosset of Grove Press, which is known chiefly for its back list of classic and not-so-classic pornography. "But he kept stalling, so I finally said, 'If you don't deliver it on time, don't deliver it at all.' " Lane did not deliver...
Approached by the YD's, the Kennedy Institute has decided to sponsor bi-monthly seminar dinners for the interns. Barney Frank, special assistant for undergraduate affairs at the Institute, explained last night that the Massachusetts legislators and "others interested in Massachusetts and Massachusetts politics" will attend these seminars as advisors. The theoretically-oriented seminars are designed to complement the practical experience of internship...