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With such sprightly comment, Times Sports Columnist Murray has built a reputation and following that, in just six months, qualifies him as one of the best sportswriters in the U.S. The fan mail comes in from all over, even from women. "I love your column," gushed one distaff Murray fan, "even when I don't know what you're talking about." Wrote another: "For the first time in my life, I'm reading the sports page." Murray has fielded four offers to turn radio or television sportscaster; and after a dozen serious inquiries from other papers...
Thurs., Nov. 10 Purex Special for Women (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). "The Trapped Housewife," a documentary dramatization and subsequent panel discussion pondering the distaff "disenchantment syndrome...
...newsmen: "I have no comment on what Mrs. Kennedy wears or says." Then she commented anyhow: "I don't criticize other women, and I never have. I buy my clothes off the racks of various stores around Washington and sometimes, in New York." Pressed further, she provided a distaff version of one of the week's most popular political lines: "I don't think clothes are an issue...
...very likely go down in history as Ladies' Day, with women voters outnumbering men for the first time in any peacetime presidential election. Both presidential candidates and their wives are coolly judged for their sex appeal (consensus: Kennedy has the edge for male honors, Pat Nixon for the distaff); both are keenly aware of female interest in heavyweight issues (Kennedy, economic security; Nixon stressing peace) ; both have staffed party organizations with more women officials and workers than ever before...
...psychiatrists to work on a dramatic new research program. Bobby is the president but Sarge Shriver is the managing director of the foundation and each of the brothers and brothers-in-law is a member of the board, but the prime movers of the foundation come from the distaff side: Pat Lawford runs the West Coast operations, Eunice Shriver is in charge of the Midwest, and Jean Smith is responsible for the East Coast. Says Founder Joe Kennedy: "Everybody has a locality...