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...make poor business partners. For many an entrepreneurial Pop the gladdest moment of a lifetime is when his No.1 son enters the family firm. For many an obliging son it would be wiser if he never set foot in the place. Once looked on by young men as the shortest road to success, taking over a family business is now seen by more and more of them as a fast way to a nervous breakdown...
...Council I don't know what in the name of God is going on." Why, cried one member of the Texas State Society of Washington, D.C., "this is just like a campaign down home with everybody out howdyin'." And out howdyin' the gladdest of all was the guest of honor, President Johnson's new Ambassador to Australia, Lawyer Edward Clark, 59, of Austin. Mr. Ed backslapped his way through the crowd of more than 1,100 Texans at the society's annual summer outing at Fort Hunt, Va., just outside the capital. He like...
Famed in Los Angeles as the gladdest glad-hander of them all, Norris Poulson made the mistake of trying to slug it out with Yorty. He linked Yorty with Nevada gamblers, claimed his opponent had underworld support. Yorty sued for $3,300,000 for slander. Suffering from a severe case of laryngitis, Poulson also made the tactical error of appearing on television shows with the vigorous Yorty, left the impression that he was a sick and tired...
Across the land this Christmas season, churches old and new, grand or unpretentious, prepare for the gladdest occasion of the Christian calendar. The choirs, practicing the favorite carols, come as close as they will be to perfection, creches are installed, candles lit. The old is comfortable and familiar. But across the wintry U.S. this year, more churchgoers than ever before will find themselves in novel surroundings (see color...
Another fine U.S. musical export is the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, now in Europe. Beginning a tour that will include the Continent for the first time since Arturo Toscanini took it abroad 25 years ago, the orchestra got the gladdest welcome and the biggest raves any orchestra has ever had at the Edinburgh Festival. The press was more pro than con. Sample pro: the Manchester Guardian's Neville Gardus noted that the scherzo of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 4 "received a performance which frankly left me ... speechless with wonder and admiration." Not so pro: John Warrack...