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Hayes, a soft-spoken North Carolinian who started his career as an assistant editor for Pageant magazine, remained. He rose to managing editor in 1962, editor in 1963. He pacified the staff, tackled a perennial dull-cover problem by persuading Gingrich to try out George Lois, one of the adman inventors of the Volkswagen campaign. Lois, in real life a partner in the advertising firm of Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc., gives away the $600 he gets for each cover to a Greek charity. Hayes also put across the idea that the magazine's editors should think up the table...
...member of Tanzania's High Court, stepped up to the bench. Ededem Effiwatt, the ponderous, coal-black prosecutor, made ready to represent the state. And an unarmed African policeman stood guard by the prisoner in the dock. Everywhere he looked, Peace Corpsman Bill Haywood Kinsey, 24, a North Carolinian who had been charged with the murder of his wife, was reminded that he was a stranger in a strange land...
...fellow South Carolinian, Brigadier General John F. T. Kennedy, 80, who had received the Medal of Honor for action against Philippine guerrillas in 1909, and stood proudly by last week as Johnson hung the nation's highest emblem of heroism -only the fourth awarded for action in Viet Nam-around Lieut. Williams' neck. "This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and the greatest thing that ever will happen," said Williams. He recalled that one Commander-in-Chief-it was Truman-had said he would rather have the Medal of Honor than be President, adding...
Weaver's wife Ella is an auburn-haired, fair-skinned North Carolinian who has a University of Michigan master's degree and a Northwestern University Ph.D. in speech. She did her undergraduate work at the Carnegie Tech drama department from 1929 to 1932 despite an unwritten policy that no Negroes were allowed. Everyone thought she was white-including the all-white Southern Club of Pittsburgh, which awarded her at the end of her sophomore year a scholarship for being the top Dixie-bred student...
...best deadpan North Carolinian, NBC-TV News Star David Brinkley, 45, informed the audience at Columbia University's second Elmer Davis Memorial lecture: "It might be all right for a program like Danny Kaye's or Lucille Ball's to have a star. But when this system is carried over into television's coverage of news, it is absurd, irrelevant and inappropriate. It may be that Huntley, Cronkite and I are the last of a type." Good night, David...