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...clad in secular clothes with top hats, paid ?5,800 for the Farm Street leasehold in what was then a stifling congestion of stables and cab-choked cobble streets. But as Mayfair spread out and the Edwardian upper crust turned the stables into mews flats, Farm Street became top-drawer. The best known Farm Street figure of this elegant era was handsome, well-born Father Bernard Vaughan, whose sermons packed such dramatic punch that professional actors came to church for pointers...
...much as $800 to $1,000 a year, depending upon the size of the school and how hard they work. Says Roger Chapin of Middlebury College: "The hunting rifle and shotgun hanging on the wall in my room, the skis in the corner, the camera in my desk drawer and a canoe are all byproducts of TIME sales." When summer vacation at the University of Minnesota began last year, says our subscription agent Merrill Cragun, "I bought a convertible and took my first jaunt to the East Coast as a result of selling TIME." TIME commissions plus scholarships helped Bernard...
Died. Jorge Negrete, 42, top-drawer singing star of Mexican cowboy films and one of Latin America's favorite cinemactors, fourth husband (since last year) of Mexico's tempestuous Movie Queen Maria Felix; of a liver ailment; in Hollywood. As Mexicans openly mourned Film Idol Negrete's death, his widow declared "unsuitable" a two-engined transport plane sent by Mexico's President Ruiz Cortines to bring his body home from Los Angeles, instead chartered a four-engined American Airlines DC-6, planned an elaborate public funeral in Mexico City...
...Your story . . . is excellent, primarily because it captures some of the spirit that permeates the campus and student body. Notre Dame has top-drawer material, but so do many other schools; this is one of the few times I have seen it acknowledged in a publication of general circulation that Notre Dame's winning ways are at least partly attributable to an "intangible spirit that seems to make super-players out of ordinary mortals like Johnny Lattner...
...Soviet bourgeoisie-about 6,000,000 people (with their families, 20 million). Administrators, middle-drawer bureaucrats, technicians and army officers, these men are the backbone of Russian Communism. Many drive motorcycles, rarely automobiles, own radios but seldom TV sets. They are tough, ambitious, fiercely dedicated to the service of the state...