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...RECTOR OF JUSTIN by Louis Auchincloss. 341 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Avoid becoming second rate, cautioned Corning Glass Board Chairman Amory Houghton Jr. at Michigan's Albion College: "It is one of the most all-encompassing, intoxicating forces you'll ever come up against." Take care not to be pushy, either, added Calvin B. Hoover, Duke University economist who spoke at Duke. If anyone realizes that "you are grooming yourself for leadership, you will be considered the insufferable prig which you would be." And thus was Youth once again infused with the distilled wisdom of Age and Experience...
...movie re-creates events leading to the 1961 conviction of Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, born Konon Trofimovich Molody, who was recently swapped back to the Russians in exchange for Greville Wynne. Still in a British prison for their association with Lonsdale are pub-crawling Chief Petty Officer Henry Houghton; his plump, middle-aged sweetheart Elizabeth Gee, who filched diagrams, manuals and Admiralty fleet orders; and a pair of personable American traitors, Peter and Helen Kroger, whose cozy home in a London suburb contained a radio that got its programming directly from Moscow...
Briskly acted and filmed, Treason telescopes the story to concentrate on the shambling, corruptible Houghton. He looses his charm on the navy's Miss Gee, a lonely spinster who sits next to a safe full of top secrets, dreaming about love, Monte Carlo and a yellow two-seater sportscar. Their romance, though, consists mainly of weekends in London, and the extent of their moral debauchery is going to a music hall to applaud the Crazy Gang. The film makers warn at the end that "there may be a spy in this very theater, in the very row where...
...think it is unlikely that the city will sell, however," Whitlock continued. If it does, the money will probably be used to build a new Houghton Grammer School with a gym and enlarged playground for the area. Since the state would pay 40% of the prospective $2.4 million cost, Cambridge would have to pay very little, Whitlock explained...