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Biggest single contributor was Marshall Field Jr., publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, which is now supporting Dwight Eisenhower. His specified contribution was $7,100, but a note indicated that he had given more on an "anonymous" basis. Among other contributors: the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers and United Steelworkers unions, $2,500 each...
...Each contributor was asked to write about his favorite saint. Two saints, Francis of Assisi and the Spanish mystic John of the Cross, were selected twice. Poet Noyes has written about St. John the Evangelist as the most "intuitive" of the Apostles. George Lamb, a young British Catholic, discusses St. Simeon Stylites, the 5th century hermit who spent 37 years sitting on a pillar. Psychiatrist Karl Stern writes about St. Théreèse of Lisieux, a bourgeois French girl who died in 1897, at 24, in a Carmelite cloister. Also included: one Pope, Pius V; two Jesuits, Ignatius...
...that the next Congress will try to solve the problem of the poor man in politics, a problem which Nixon dramatically posed last Tuesday. Even the Governor of Illinois has faced the problem, and his answer has if nothing else an advantage over Nixon's in that no private contributor knows who he is helping support...
...Contributor of most of the tittle-tattle and digression on the British show is voluble Panelist Harding, whom the BBC once banned for seven weeks from Twenty Questions after he audibly mumbled into the mike that the show was "a silly business." Later he was officially scolded for snapping at a whisky broker on What's My Line?: "I'm tired of looking at your face." Unlike U.S. audiences, Britons win no prizes on their quiz shows. The successful challenger who manages to stump the panel is rewarded with a parchment scroll, suitable for framing and hanging...
Pure Food & Drug Act. Collier's, then a leading muckraking magazine, hired Sullivan as a regular contributor and sent him to Washington, where he became such a crony of Teddy Roosevelt's that the President used to let him use his Virginia retreat during the summer. Soon Sullivan was editor of Collier...