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...Clark Clifford, an adviser to several Presidents, remembers that "on Truman's desk was the famous sign 'The Buck Stops Here,' and there was another sign quoting Mark Twain: 'Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.' That is what Mr. Truman did." Clifford can still hear the ring of Truman's voice in 1948 when his Gallup was at 36%, and he was told he faced certain political defeat unless he changed his stance on civil rights to woo the South. "I am not going to change one single...
Looking pale and drawn, Artist Edith Irving, 39, was paroled last week from a Swiss jail. She had served 14 months of a 24-month sentence, which was slightly less than the sentence imposed by a U.S. court on Husband Clifford Irving for masterminding the Howard Hughes hoax that put them both in the pokey. Edith was met by Emil Stengelé, a wealthy Zurich art-gallery owner who has bought the many paintings she made in prison for exhibition later this month. Her time behind bars revealed Edith's tough side: she disarmed an inmate who was attacking...
Golden Boy (1939). A Clifford Odets play about a boxer who feels he must give up the ring and devote himself to the violin. This is a sentiment that plagues many prize fighters. Ch. 38, 7:30 p.m. B/W, 1 1/2 hours...
...look thin and tired?" Even Randolph Hearst has begun to despair. "We have hope," he says, "but it is not too bright now." He is willing to clutch at any straw and search anywhere for an intermediary who can put him in touch with the S.L.A. He recently visited Clifford Jefferson, a black lifer at Vacaville known as "Death Row Jeff' who knew Cinque very well. Hearst has even talked with a number of psychics in a vain effort to turn up clues...
...market for campaign contributions for the President's reelection. The milkmen pledged $2 million to the campaign, and after a series of meetings with Connally and the President in March 1971, began making contributions, which fell far short of the pledge. Although Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin initially objected, price supports for milk were raised enough to add $500 million to the annual income of dairy farmers, a measure Nixon argues he took to forestall an even larger increase by the Democratic Congress...