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More than 10,000 spectators lined the shore of Onondaga Lake, at Syracuse, N.Y., for the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta. For the first time in years, Syracuse University's home-town crew was picked to win. As Referee Clifford ("Tip") Goes sent the shells streaking away from their stake boats, no one paid much attention to the University of Wisconsin's crew, which had not even been good enough to qualify for the finals of the Eastern sprint championships last month, had, in fact, wound up dead last in the consolation race...
...also a member of a leading San Francisco family. As executive editor, Newhall scrapped the Chronicle's old makeup of sober type marching row on row for a blaze of bold, black headlines, launched syndicated Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren (TIME, Jan. 20, 1957), assembled a cast of 20 home-town columnists. "International news," declares Thieriot, "is not what people want to read at breakfast...
...Home-Town Morals (after Ralls moviegoers traveled 32 miles to Lubbock to see a Brigitte Bardot movie): "They wouldn't be caught dead attending it in Ralls. Rallsites take their movies like they take their liquor-out of town. That way, nobody gets contaminated and all the kids remain vestal virgins...
...apologizing for the rate increase. We don't recall that our favorite grocer knocked himself out explaining when our favorite 46-oz. can of tomato juice jumped from 19? two years ago to 36? as of today. There's nothing prohibitive about $4 a year for a home-town newspaper. That's about 7½ ? a copy. About half our readers loll around coffee shops swilling from four to twelve cups of 10? coffee every day. They shouldn't squawk about paying the price of one cup of coffee for what we work all week...
...cataracts; his eyesight has not really returned. Last fortnight he returned from a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, complained that he had been unable to hear the testimony; his staff discovered that he simply had not had his hearing aid turned up far enough. Last week Green's home-town Providence Journal sorrowfully made an editorial suggestion: "The time has come to say frankly that Senator Green can perform a final and unique service by stepping down as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations." Even as the suggestion was advanced, Teddy Green was in the process of drafting...