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...hero of the book is named Alec Barr. Like the author, he was born poor in North Carolina, went to college at Chapel Hill, hired on as a general reporter for the Washington Daily News, soon started a syndicated column, and in recent years made big money and a big name with a brace of bestsellers about Africa in transformation. The story of the hero's public life is superficial but exciting; the details of his private life are clinical and, with the hero-author parallel continually implied, embarrassing. As for the women in his life, Ruark compares them...
...RICHARD A. BARR U.S.M.C. New Rochelle...
Died. Jeanette Barr Derby Cuthbert, 70, known to the fashion world as Jane Derby, designer since 1930 of dresses for petite mature women, herself a diminutive (5 ft.) Virginia socialite who over the years turned out an elegant line of high fashion and ready-to-wear, usually trimmed with bows, was most popular for her "little" black crepe dress that could see a woman from after noon into evening; of a heart attack; in Bermuda...
...reference to Roger Barr's judgment [June 18] of the festival of "happenings" that we presented at the American Artists Center in Paris, we would like to state how much we, in turn, disagree with his obsolete thinking. The art of revolt and hallucinations, the awareness and new meaning of freedom, which are coming out of the happenings produced in Paris, New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm or Tokyo-all that is too much for Professor Barr. But for us, it's only a beginning...
...More businessmen are going back to school to teach. Nearly 15% of Detroit University's business faculty are returnees from business. Chairman John Barr will soon leave Montgomery Ward to become dean of Northwestern's business school. A substantial number of executives now teach part time or temporarily. Former General Counsel Leland Hazard of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. gives a culture course at Carnegie Tech, and Ford Financial Vice President Theodore Yntema will lead seminars there this fall. Paul M. Mazur, a Lehman Bros. partner, is a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School...