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...dingy downtown headquarters of Hearst's Los Angeles morning Examiner stepped Managing Editor William A. Townes, 52. Suddenly he was trapped in the glare of television floodlights. Bill Stout, newscaster for Los Angeles station KTLA, had his microphone at the ready. Could Townes confirm persistent reports that the Examiner was about to die? No, said Townes, he could not. Then he added quietly: "I am sad because I believe the rumors are true...
...Bate, Chairman of the Department of English, would not confirm or deny the report, but other members of the Department have said that the 45-year-old poet has accepted a position here. Lowell delivered a reading from his poetry here in December and attended a reception in his honor at the Advocate, at which there was talk about his appointment...
Thus it will seem to an American audience that he relies too heavily on his readers' assumed sympathy as his binding thread. He will confirm, but he will not convince. (It is worth remembering, however, that he is writing in an English journal, for an audience that is more skeptical of civil defence than Americans appear to be, and certainly less informed about this country's shelter-craze.) Nonetheless, "The Illusion of Civil Defence" is a particularly interesting, particularly disappointing instance of what seems to happen to almost anyone who tires to speak intelligently on the subject. Piel's article...
After writing some ten million perishable words, Lolly has misspelled so many names that pressagents now usually confirm every telephone tip with a typed copy sent to her Beverly Hills home. She once exhumed an author dead a decade to report that he was busily retooling a book of his as a film vehicle for Dolores del Rio. After she reported that Conrad Nagel was handholding at the Derby with Frances Somebody-or-Other, she hardly seemed fazed to discover that Frances was really Francis-and that there had been no handholding. But her friends stand by her: when...
...view of some of its despairing critics, New York City is just too large and complex for any one man to govern properly-and Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has certainly done much to confirm that belief during his eight fumbling, scandal-specked years in office. But Wagner is a Democrat, and New York is an overwhelmingly Democratic city. And last week, after one of the dreariest campaigns in its history, New York gave Bob Wagner 1,239,533 votes for a plurality of 402,980 over his Republican opponent, Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz. Running as an independent, City Controller Lawrence...