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...Executive Hendon Chubb ('95) to encourage student interest in public affairs. Each year four or five public dignitaries take residence for five days, share in the life of Yale and Timothy Dwight College, make a speech and answer a lot of questions. Past Chubb Fellows include Harry Truman, Clement Attlee, Dean Acheson, Herbert Brownell. Adlai Stevenson, Chester Bowles and Barry Goldwater. Against such a cast of characters, Unruh could only say on arrival: "I guess I'm the chubbiest Chubb Fellow you've had." As it turned out, he was also one of the most charming...
Died. Representative Clement Miller. 45, voluble, spike-witted liberal Democrat from California's mammoth First Congressional District (San Francisco Bay to Oregon), grandson of a onetime Delaware Republican Governor, author (Member of the House, a collection of informal letters conveying the tempo of Congress to his constituents), and one of twelve liberals linked to the highly incendiary The Liberal Papers, a volume of strong-winded essays on U.S. foreign policy published last March; on a campaign swing for his third term when the twin-engined plane ferrying him crashed on Chaparral Mountain in northern California...
Most of the long evening was spent introducing 30 prominent Democrats, including Peabody's rivals for the gubernatorial nomination, Lieutenant Governor Edward A. Mc Laughlin and Motor Vehicle Registrar Clement A. Riley...
Novelist Powers is anything but anticlerical, but in his sly, fond way he can twit the clerics sharply. He has a fine eye for the kind of Catholic foible that makes other Catholics wince. The founder of the Clementine order, for instance, was the (imaginary) martyr St. Clement, who was pressed to death between millstones. Naturally, given the Catholic fondness for sanguinary names, the order's publishing house is called the Millstone Press. The dear, droll priest has cluttered up magazines (Father Juniper) and movie houses (Bing and Barry) for years. The work of J. F. Powers...
...opponents tried to tag him with his friendship with Billie Sol Estes. Billie Sol and Clement, both named among the Junior Chamber of Commerce's "Outstanding Young Men" of 1953, became pretty good buddies: Clement named Billie Sol an honorary colonel on the Governor's staff; Billie Sol cut Clement in on a couple of financial deals. But that didn't seem to matter. The people of Tennessee apparently just love to hear Frank Clement talk. And so does...