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...text went to United Artists-despite the ban on movie sales. Without the Kennedys' O.K., rights for British publication were sold to London Publisher Michael Joseph for an unspecified sum and to the Book-of-the-Month Club in the U.S. Manchester's agent, Donald Congdon, sent 25 copies of the manuscript to six magazines-LIFE, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's and Good Housekeeping-for bids...
...fatigue took hold. Boy Scouts loved it, though their adult leaders seldom kept up. College fraternities took to it with the same gusto with which they once stuffed telephone booths. In California 400 Marin County high school students set out, and 97 finished-including 16-year-old Diana Congdon, who covets a place among lady discus throwers in the 1964 Olympics and who walked the 50 miles in 13 hr. 29 min., toting an 8-lb. knapsack filled with a diminishing supply of candy, oranges and fresh clothes. In Burlington, N.C., a 58-year-old postman (who rides a motor...
...William Congdon...
...encouraged to see abstract art go religious via William Congdon [March 2]. A religious theme gives it purpose, and art can still illuminate religion, as it has done so worthily in the past...
...photograph of Congdon's Crucifix No. 2 seems to show that the hard-won visual knowledge leading up to the faithless cliches of abstract expressionism has also served him well-although perhaps it is unfair to judge on so little...