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...brightest new face wears an agony that in only ten weeks has grown as familiar to millions as Ed Murrow's cigarette or Arthur Godfrey's tea bag. Clamped in a vise of earphones, the eyes roll heavenward and squeeze shut, the brow sweats and furrows, the teeth gnaw at the lower lip. But the weekly torment of concentration always ends in triumph for Charles Lincoln Van Doren, 30, who has already won $122,000-more than any other quiz contestant in history-and is still going strong on NBC's Twenty One (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T...
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground . . . Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain...
...stop the wage-price spiral wrinkled many a Washington brow last week. One possibility which the Administration shudders to think about: a national policy limiting wage increases to those justifiable by rising living costs and improvements in actual output. Best bet: an all-out effort to warn big labor and management of the dangers of unrestricted wage-price increases. Said Dr. Raymond Saulnier, new chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "Federal monetary and fiscal policies cannot solve the [inflation] problem, though they can do much. We will also require the efforts of both business and labor...
...School, nevertheless underlines his kinship with the Italo-American, whose estimated 300,000 votes represent an attractive plum in a state where 30,000 pluralities are common. A former U.S. Representative, he served as State Treasurer for two and a half years under Governor Paul Dever, whose sopping brow inundated the nation's TV sets during his keynote speech four years ago at the Democratic National Convention. Furcolo, who has been criticized as "Dever's man" for his fair-haired position in the last Democratic Administration, lost to Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14, in 1954 by only 28,000 votes...
...closing in, Britain embarked on an autumn grousing season, picked as its first target a member of the royal family. The victim: bonnie Prince Charles, 7, fresh back in Buckingham Palace after a long Scottish holiday. The question, quickly debated by irritable newspaper readers: Assuming that Charles has a brow, is it high, middle or low? Noting that on his return "the prince's hair was even closer to his eyebrows than usual," London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed his forehead...