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...Harrison Hoyt is a chunky, red-faced man who lives in Connecticut and makes hats. Unlike most fairly well-to-do men who own harness horses, he likes to race his own in the big time. At Goshen's Good Time Park last week, tradition was against him as he maneuvered his prize three-year-old into line for the start. No amateur had ever won the famed Hambletonian, trotting's Kentucky Derby...
...disdains a hearing aid. He hears well on the telephone, which is, by long odds, his favorite channel of communication with other human beings. Since he sleeps only when he is sleepy, he calls up his lieutenants at all hours of the night. Sometimes he identifies himself as "Mr. Hoyt." He has had a number of other aliases, including one for the Town House in Los Angeles, one for the tailors from whom he never buys any clothes, and one which he used, years ago, when he got a job as co-pilot with American Airlines ($250 a month...
...West Point, to Hoyt Jr., a rock-jawed plebe, went a fountain pen and a rock-solid handshake from Air Force General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, '23, who has come a long way since then but still looks a little like a plebe with his hair slicked down...
...many papers give too many people on the Left too much reason to believe that they print too much stuff from the Right." For that reason, said Denver Post Editor Palmer Hoyt (see below) last week, he had hired Socialist Norman Thomas to cover the G.O.P. and Democratic conventions. Hoyt, who had been impressed by Thomas' guest editorials in the Post, promptly sold his convention coverage to twelve other papers (including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Houston Post...
...Editor Hoyt did not need to worry about coverage. With or without Presidential Candidate (for the sixth time) Thomas, U.S. readers would be exposed to all shades of opinion by all varieties of domestic and imported experts. Among them: Cartoonist David Low (for LIFE); Randolph Churchill and ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce (United Features); Rebecca West (Canada Wide Features) ; Novelists Louis Bromfield and Katharine Brush (I.N.S...