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...young Californian named Scott Thompson was facing Army induction in just two weeks; yet he seemed peculiarly elated when he phoned a U.C.L.A. coed. "Hey," he shouted, "did you see the papers? Do you want to get married?" The girl did not, no matter what the papers said. So Thompson-unless he could find someone else in a hurry-was doomed to enter the Army. But some 340,000 other men of draft age-whose girls had once said yes-were suddenly free to stay home. A presidential order last week exempted all married men from induction, giving them...
When he heard of Lytton's notion, Ed Day, himself a sometime Californian, said: "I am confident that the President will not appoint a man whose main qualifications are political manipulation and power plays. I am sure the President wants a continuation of the emphasis on better mail service rather than boss politics in the Post Office Department." Lytton's gibes did not bother Big Daddy a bit, but Day's did. After all, Unruh had recommended Day to the President for the Postmaster General's office in the first place...
Died. James David Zellerbach, 71, chairman of Crown-Zellerbach Corp., world's second largest forest-products firm, U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1956 to 1960, a slight, bespectacled Californian, who took over the family company in 1938, helped its sales grow to nearly $600 million, found time for civic enterprises (the San Francisco Symphony, Golden Gateway redevelopment plan), served ably in a dozen public posts and produced in his private vineyard a California wine that made French diplomats swallow respectfully; of a brain tumor; in San Francisco...
...college dailies like the CRIMSON, the Michigan Daily, and the Daily Californian will be hurt by the suspension, but they should have enough institutional strength to absorb the loss while searching for replacements. Unfortunately, only a handful of papers are in this category. Many will be forced to go to their administration or student government organization for financial help. Bi-weeklies may have to cut back to weekly publication, and weeklies and dailies may have to reduce their sizes. New college magazines, which usually face even tougher financial problems than the newspapers, will find it increasingly difficult to stay alive...
...fact which led the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger to headline an Associated Press story: CALIFORNIAN is CHARGED WITH MURDER OF EVERS...