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...sentimentality, doom never really happens. Only the right dragons are finally slain. There is little dirt, little passion. Even the style is a mechanical stringing together of cliches. But the computerized formula seems to work. Author "K. B. Gilden" is actually the husband and wife team named Katya and Bert Gilden. They sold the movie rights for this first novel to Hollywood in a sliding-scale deal that could bring them more than...
...Toward that end, Johnson announced that he has appointed Vice President-elect Hu bert Humphrey to coordinate all federal activities in the civil rights field, including those of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Di vision, the Civil Rights Commission, the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing, the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, and the Community Relations Service...
...Brian's critics might forgive such departures from duty if he took a better view of them and their product. But the performers who bask in O'Brian's favor -Bert Lahr, Perry Como and Walter Cronkite, to name most of them-are vastly outnumbered by those who do not. O'Brian has excoriated Danny Kaye for 15 years on the grounds that Kaye's comic talent never escaped infancy. He is equally steadfast in his disapproval of Ed Sullivan ("Old Smiley"), David Susskind ("Little David"), CBS News Commentator Mike Wallace ("a vacuum") and scores...
...more horses." The President haw-hawed, later shep herded a few people, including Hubert and Muriel Humphrey, on a leisurely sundown tour of the ranch, drawled contentedly about the soil, the rain, and the virtues of the U.S. voter. At the ranch after dinner, Lyndon and Hu bert kidded about their pre-election predictions; Johnson had said 44 states for the Democrats, Humphrey had guessed 45. Depending on how Arizona came out, either could have been right. Any how, they had a most amicable jawing session in front of a blazing cedar fire until well after midnight...
President Bert S. Cross of the 3M Co. - nee Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing - called up a vice president to ask a question: "Say, just how many divisions do we have now?" The answer is 21, and the otherwise precise president should be forgiven for not knowing, because his company has been going and growing like sixty. Sales have tripled since 1955, and last week Cross announced that volume for this year's first nine months jumped 10%, to a record $664 million...