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President Pusey is among 63 men and women from the Boston area who are new contributors to the 1961 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Pusey's article concerns the life and times of Abbot Lawrence Lowell...
...Nelson Rockefeller for the New York governorship in 1962. While the Rome post might be good for a lot of Italian-American votes, F.D.R. Jr. has almost certainly decided not to take-at least for a while-an Administration job. In that case, the next choice for Rome is Encyclopaedia Britannica Chairman William Benton, the onetime Connecticut Senator and big-time Kennedy campaign contributor...
...punching the time clock each day as he reported for work with his 2,000 employees (he also punched a bag daily), often showed up in old, patched clothes. He kept up his interest in sports as a pole vaulting coach at Yale for many years (he authored the Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on pole vaulting) and, ever the perfectionist, gave up golf after getting his score down to 80 because "I cannot master this game...
...segregationist riots. Two years later Ashmore went to work for the Fund for the Republic, was commissioned by the Ford Foundation to study how to make the press more self-responsible. Last week he took the $50,000-a-year job as editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. As EB's 19th-editor, Ashmore replaces Walter Yust, who died last February after 22 years...
...continuous examination of the press's strengths and weaknesses. As a man who has long believed that "journalism should serve as a two-way bridge between the world of ideas and the world of men," Harry Ashmore will probably find many bridge-building opportunities on the Encyclopaedia Britannica...