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...GIFTS, by 1. Compton-Burnett. The "god" in this acerbic novel is a memorable domestic tyrant whose crimes are limited to the people closely related...
...GIFTS, by I. Compton-Burnett. The "god" in this acerbic novel is a memorable domestic tyrant whose crimes are limited to the people closely related...
...know how I could be worth that much to anybody." Then he vaulted to a new world record of 16 ft. 5 in. "That record won't last 24 hours," he said, and even when he raised the record to 16 ft. 8 in. last month in Compton, Calif., he still insisted that there must be better vaulters around. "If I can go 16 ft. 8 in. doing everything wrong," he said, "there's bound to be somebody else who can go 17 ft. 6 in. It's all in the fiber-glass pole." Like most...
...artists, scholars and writers to the tune of about $1,500,000 a year. Moe's genius was to spot promising people in their 30s, give them time and money to make good their talents. No man has done more to nurture creative Americans (Physicist Arthur Holly Compton, Painter Jack Levine, Composer Aaron Copland, Novelist James Baldwin). Moe will continue such manifold interests as the presidency of the American Philosophical Society, but his infinitely painstaking talent hunt is over. Moe is not a bit sad: "I'm just as content as hell to turn this over to younger...
...Mormon who says he feels "emotionally close to George Romney but philosophically closer to Barry Goldwater," Clawson for several years has mailed paperback copies of Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative as Christmas cards. In his first term as mayor of Compton, he eliminated bonded indebtedness and reduced city tax rates by one-third, was promptly re-elected in 1961. In his campaign, Conservative Clawson ignored his opponents, trained his fire on the Kennedy Administration. Stumping district shopping centers, assembly lines, weddings, wakes and picnics, he urged the elimination of farm price supports, recognition of a Cuban government...