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...homes were exposed. One reporter posed as a Skid Row bum in order to find out who was stealing food from state-supported shelters. Vail created a department of urban affairs, sent its editor to study at Northwestern University for three months. He hired a fashion reporter from the defunct New York World Journal Tribune to "dress up Cleveland's women," as he put it, and end their reputation for being the "babushka...
...presidential politics has changed almost beyond recognition since 1948, when Truman fought for survival by rallying the old machine pros to deliver him the nomination. For one thing, the bosses today are fewer and less potent than of yore. The Democratic machinery in key states is either barnacled or defunct. Perhaps the only major old-line boss on whom Johnson can rely is Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, who predictably issued an effusive-and rather offensive-defense of the President by declaring: "Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party. One betrayed him, o'ne denied...
Died. Walter Millis, 69, military journalist and historian; husband of Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard; ot cancer; in Manhattan. During 30 years on the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, Millis established a reputation as one of the country's most lucid military commentators. His books ranged from The Martial Spirit (1931), which examined the origins of the Spanish-American War, to This Is Pearl! (1947), a study of U.S. unpreparedness against the Japanese attack. Recently, though, his articles turned more to politics than the conduct of arms, criticizing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and voicing opposition to nuclear weapons...
...Factory are going to dig it forever," says Sammy Davis Jr., who reckons that Los Angeles has room enough for 20 more places like it. His reckoning is contagious. Tony Curtis, a Factory regular, is about to open a private club of his own called The Candy Store, the defunct Romanoff's will soon be reopened as The Jazz Suite, and Brian Morris is moving into town with The Bumble, patterned after his private Ad Lib club in London. Looking farther afield, the directors of The Factory themselves are planning to franchise other clubs in converted warehouses...
...noted that half the men presently holding II-A's do not have jobs included in the now-defunct list. "The list was always a guideline, not law," he said...