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...hush of astonishment broken by a buzz of generally favorable comment greeted his announement. "It sure beats late May and 1000 pages on dex," one senior said...
...managers of mutual funds have been performing poorly lately. During this year's first half, the composite in dex of shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange dropped an average 8%. The decline for mutual funds was close to 12%. Of the 369 funds ranked by Manhattan's Arthur Lipper Corp., only six managed to post any gains...
...night someone telephones to ask you to be editor of the Saturday Review. Because you're then in need of reassurance, you rate it as a great personal achievement to be offered the responsiblity for an important magazine. Actually, however, your sleepless nights over the typewriter on dex were supposed to lead you to writing the Great Work, to be the next Faulkner of the American novel, you thought. To edit a magazine leaves your life's work at a few well-reading periodicals. You've been made to feel you want to do just exactly what you knew...
Winship has chosen a political man like himself -- a mellow dex-radical named Charlie Whipple--to head the editorial staff. As an undergraduate at Harvard in the '30's, Whipple was a card-carrying Communist and was arrested picketing Sears, Roebuck. After working his way from office boy to reporter on the Globe,he spent two years as a guild organizer before returning to the paper. (He no longer agrees with the guild and is not a member, but he remembers that he "gave it may all in those days...
Harvard rallied in the third quarter to gain a 6-5 edge on goals by Dex Newton and Marty Cain...