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Golenpaul helped sift the questions from listeners who for more than a decade tried to stump such quick wits as Critic Clifton Fadiman, Pianist Oscar Levant and Sportswriter John Kieran...
Rising Exxonians are never quite sure where they rank on any list; superiors discuss with them only their performance, not their potential. That system reaches one rung short of the top. Clifton Garvin Jr. insists that when directors named him Exxon's president in July 1972, he was surprised. Though Garvin was one of two executive vice presidents, no one had ever told him that he was at the top of Jamieson's list of possible future presidents...
...bubble, manufactured by Air Tech Industries of Clifton, New Jersey, was designed to withstand eighty mile per hour winds. The 1968 opening was delayed three months as tests were conducted to determine the soundest building material...
...About ten years ago," says Author-Critic Clifton Fadiman, 69, "I began to get less interested in grownups and more interested in children." A lifelong addict-pusher of good reading for adults (Book-of-the-Month Club judge, author of The Lifetime Reading Plan), Fadiman has now set out to hook the grade-school crowd. From his hilltop home in Santa Barbara, where he is also preparing a critical history of children's literature, Fadiman is editing a brisk new magazine called Cricket...
...midst of high affairs of state, Military Aide Chester V. (Ted) Clifton used to get a special signal. He knew what to do. He squared his shoulders, marched out of the room, returned with an important-looking folder, put it discreetly in the President's hand. Inside was a cigar...