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...coaches loose to travel and meet prospective football players. The mails are too impersonal to give a young man a good picture of a football program in which he hopes to become deeply involved. And perhaps coach Restic can interest some intelligent athletes too caught up in the glamour of bigtime football into looking at Harvard as an alternative to the sometimes difficult path of a total committment to football...
...birthday, Wenner evidently decided that major changes were in order. First came the announcement earlier this year that the magazine would move its main offices from San Francisco-America's rock & roll center at the time of Rolling Stone's founding a decade ago-to-the center of media glamour and respectability, Manhattan. Wenner then reaped another bumper crop of publicity when he cultivated the acquaintance of two pseudocelebrities (famous only by dint of their surnames). William Randolph Hearst III and Jack Ford, and gave them a magazine supposedly all their own, Outside...
...only thing that will turn a man's head faster than a passing pretty girl is an antique car moving majestically down the slow lane on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Duesenberg, Auburn, Cord, Marmon, Stutz, Fierce-Arrow and Franklin have the glamour of old movie stars-and are usually better preserved. The value of these classics now runs into six figures. American Classic Cars by Henry Rasmussen (Picturama/Schocken; unpaged; $24.50) allows the subcompact set to relive the golden age of the luxury automobile. A look at masterpieces as rare as a glimpse of Garbo...
...York Times was stripped of his theater post last March. Enter Australian Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, who hired Barnes for his afternoon paper, the New York Post. Says the Oxford-educated Barnes: "Anyone attached to the New York Times has a kind of instant credibility and instant glamour. One wonders how much that is a cloak bestowed by the paper and how much it is one's own. I felt it was more challenging to be without the Times rather than with the Times." Better yet, Barnes gets back on the aisle...
...successful team, competition is not always the glamour that many make...