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...biography was obviously in order, and the first half of one has now been supplied by the man best qualified to write it: Yale's Frederick A. Pottle, 68, who for 37 years has served as custodian and editor of the Boswell papers. With phrases and perceptions long seasoned in sensibility, he builds a warm, complex and radically altered portrait of his subject. The face shows the same old clutter of confusions: arrogance, snobbery, priggery, pushiness, stinginess, grossness, rampant infantilism. But behind the confusions, Pottle perceives the fundamental fear and hunger in the man and, more acutely than...
Grinning and gesticulating, alternat ing wry wit and high-flown idealism, the junior Senator from New York stumped the Republic of South Africa last week as if he were the last surviving custodian of the white man's burden. At one stop, an enthusiastic crowd knocked him off the roof of a car, but Robert F. Kennedy hardly missed a comma. "I believe there will be progress," he exhorted the residents of Soweto, a black ghetto near Johannesburg. "Hate and bigotry will end in South Africa one day. I believe your children will have a better opportunity than...
...custodian at Weld Boat House found the body of Joachim H. Harrowick, age 61, floating near Lars Anderson Bridge at 7:20 yesterday morning...
...other Cabinet member since Charlie Wilson. Prodded by conservation-minded Lyndon Johnson, he has since broadened his office's traditional preoccupation with Western problems into a nationwide mandate, presided over the greatest expansion in conservation activity since Theodore Roosevelt's day. As the Great Society's custodian of natural and civic beauty, Udall has taken as his active concern everything from the water needs of thirsty Eastern cities to the fate of the nearly extinct California condor...
...custodian at Wakefield's St. John's Church discovered another pamphlet in the church parking lot later in the morning. This one read "Thousands of Americans are being killed while LBJ vacations." There was no mention of the Harvard organization but it was written by the same hand and mimeographed on the same machine as the other pamphlets...