Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Playboy Publisher Hugh M. Hefner and Playboy Huntington Hartford came onstage last summer with their new show-business magazines, Hefner airily dismissed the A. & P. heir as a competitor. "I don't think Hartford would be too worried if I decided to put out a chain of supermarkets," said he. As a matter of fact, Hartford had never worried about the affairs of the A. & P., and last week it turned out that he had little cause to worry about Hefner's decision to put out a magazine. For a bargain-basement price (some $250,000), Hartford...
...program is just such a challenge to their way of thinking. He believes that this country must be far more perceptive in dealing with domestic and foreign problems than it has been, precisely because its self-image has been wrong since the War. It conceived itself as the undisputed heir to Western hegemony. It was not. In Joseph Kraft's phrase, in the current Harper's, this is the "myth of the American century." Moreover, the country has failed to institutionalize social and economic changes, so as to keep democracy up-to-date...
...Boat traffic along the Congo River was virtually at a standstill; in the towns, shops were closed and deserted; the battered government cars on the streets of Stanleyville, with their smashed fenders and broken windows, looked like stock-car racing relics. The once menacing empire of Antoine Gizenga, heir to Patrice Lumumba's mantle, was crumbling fast...
Divorced. By Jenny Ann ("Pia") Lindstrom, 23, honey blonde daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband Dr. Peter Lindstrom: Fuller Earle Callaway III, 29, heir to a Georgia textile fortune, whom Jenny charged with acts of extreme cruelty, including pushing her down a staircase "in front of guests"; after 22 months of marriage, no children; in San Francisco...
...ready to assault Herblock's favorite target: the conservative. Artistic discipline generally keeps his passionate partiality within decent bounds (although he once showed former Vice President Richard M. Nixon crawling out of a sewer). But last week, as he sighted in on conservative U.S. Senator (and heir to Phoenix's Goldwaters department store) Barry M. Goldwater, nothing held Herblock back. He got off one of the lowest blows in his editorial-cartooning career...