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...sometimes able to help desperate sportswriters and alumni, and when he does, he often gets gifts of whiskey at Christmas in gratiude. Page does not drink, so he sells the liquor to the Varsity Club, and recently he used his earnings to build a tool shed at his Bedford house, a few blocks from where Matthews lives...
...could not afford to buy books or pay the required school fees. There was a wide racial and ethnic mix among the children. In the predominantly white Riverton Housing Project in Portland, Me., 11% of all school-age children were not attending school. In one census tract in New Bedford, Mass., 73% of all children of Portuguese descent were out of class. In the Northgate Housing Project in Montgomery, Ala., 27% of all 16-and 17-year-old blacks had not been in school for at least 45 days during the semester...
...impeachment committee's former counsel, John Door, 53, went for speed. Stephen Smith, 47, opted instead for some fancy figure work. Meanwhile, Ethel Kennedy, 46, who was holding the ninth Christmas skating party for the children of Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant ghetto, got to know her guests. "Hold me up please," she joked to a small muffled figure wobbling round the newly opened local rink, built by a fund-raising organization begun in 1967 by her late husband Bobby. Just a couple of days later and across New York City, former Mayor John Lindsay, 53, went skating...
...SYBILLE BEDFORD...
...Cultures. A decade after his death, the problem of properly dressing Aldous Huxley remains, Sybille Bedford's long, affectionately detailed biography notwithstanding. A man whose 69 years spanned and made the most of a number of literary and intellectual styles, Huxley simply does not fit comfortably into critical readymades. He was born to England's intellectual aristocracy. Thomas Henry Huxley, the great biologist and proselytizer of Darwin's theories of evolution, was his grandfather. Poet Matthew Arnold, the apostle of sweetness and light, was his mother's uncle. On one side, the traditions of scientific humanism; on the other...