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...possible pro-Kennedy delegates, set up the candidate's pre-convention campaign trips, went himself into at least 30 states that year. But with the nomination won and the general election campaign heating up, Smith found himself grounded in Washington, handling intricate home-office details for the far-flung campaigners. "He was like a key supply-corps general who spent the war in the Pentagon," recalls a Kennedy aide. "You never heard about him on the outside. But we couldn't have won the war without him." Adds another staffer: "He was indefatigable-he was great...
Died. Carl Diem. 80, scholarly German sportsman whose love of the classics led him to revive the ancient Greek tradition of relaying a torch from Mount Olympus to the far-flung sites of the Olympic games, beginning with 1936's XI Olympiad in Berlin, where he also successfully resisted Nazi efforts to bar Jewish athletes; of a stroke; in Cologne...
...Could Always Tell A Yale Man, once upon a time. You might not Approve, to be sure, but you certainly could always Tell. Frisky. Groomed. Bumptious. Friendly. Sleek. The flinty granite of the East, the knotted pine of the far-flung Reaches, and the lumpish topsoil of the Midwest all gentled and traveled by four years of mellow College life. Yes, that was the Yalie all right. As far from a top hat as a Hottentot, but withal, a man to remember, to conjure up, to savor-to be reckoned with...
Since Harvard has created its far-flung culinary empire because it believes with Locke that men in free association will talk themselves into a high state of culture, Harvard ought to take the final step and permit all of its board-paying members to dine in any of its facilities at any meal. Under this plan, if a law student wants to eat at Dunster House or a Radcliffe girl prefers to lunch at Harkness Commons, they may--so long as those normally assigned to a dining hall have space for themselves and a guest...
Although only one of his full-length features (Rocco and his Brothers) has circulated widely in this country, far-flung and knowing correspondents tout him as Europe's most meticulous director in any medium. Those of us who couldn't make it to Salerno this summer for the shooting of the Leopard are now bombarded by the glossy monthlies with awe-struck accounts of Visconti's baroque sense of light and composition or his deft flair for leading actors like Burt Lancaster into deep and exacting performances. On the evidence of Rocco and that turgid domestic squabble in Boccaccio...