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...full shock of sandy gray hair, bushy eyebrows of a color that somebody with a window dresser's vocabulary once described as "ginger," and a face easefully lined, like the leather seats of an old Jaguar. Friends say that women tremble in his presence. E.P. Dutton Editor Tom Congdon describes an incident that occurred once when he was walking with Baker on Nantucket: a stunningly beautiful young woman on a bicycle asked for directions. "Russ ambled over to her and started to tell her, in his deep, soft voice, and I could see his effect on her. Her cheeks turned...
Jonas Honick, Jim Curry and Gordon Congdon chalked up 17, 8 and 6 points, respectively for the Crimson...
Pembroke will admit 11.3 per cent blacks and Brown 5.6 per cent to the class of '73. By the class of '77, 11.1 per cent of Brown's entering class and 12.5 per cent of Pembroke's will be black The black strikers, who spent yesterday in the Congdon Street Baptist Church, had no immediate comment...
...CONGDON Harold Matson Co. Inc. Manhattan
When the bids were opened July 29, all but LIFE and Look were quickly eliminated. Congdon admitted that at one point "LIFE did offer the most dough," but LIFE was unwilling to meet Congdon's insistence that Manchester should have complete control over the serialization-down to headlines and captions. LIFE ultimately went to $600,000; Look got it for $665,000, and gave Manchester considerable control. LIFE offered him only what it has given to authors from Winston Churchill to Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: the right to recommend changes and approve the final excerpts. As for the money, Manchester...