Word: hughe
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Died. A.C. Spectorsky, 61, author and editor who created the more serious half of Playboy's split personality; of a stroke; on St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner's tastes run to fried chicken, cool jazz and Los Angeles weekends; Auguste Comte Spectorsky preferred Continental cuisine, Mozart and Caribbean sailing. When "Spec" joined "Hef's" three-year-old enterprise in 1956, it was a slick girlie magazine in search of some intellectual balance for the bare flesh. Spectorsky provided it by attracting contributions from top fiction writers and journalists. In the process he helped drive...
Cyril's "relics are circular," and his undisguised highest obligation has become the gratification of his own senses. He and his beautiful wife, Fiona, cannot be content with each other alone. Instead they require the complementary presence and attention of Hugh and Catherine if their "successful" marriage is to go on working...
...Adrian IV gave sovereignty over Ireland to England's King Henry II. During the next centuries, the English made sporadic and mostly unsuccessful efforts to conquer the island. Hegemony was finally established during the Reformation, when Queen Elizabeth's army beat the last of Ulster's great Celtic earls, Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell, at the battle of Kinsale in 1601. The vast lands of these Catholic noblemen were forfeited to English and Scottish "undertakers," who were pledged to "implant" them with farmers of Protestant faith and British race...
However, he said, the paragraph to which Isaac's referred came largely from the report on the grievances to the Corporation by two of its members. John M. Blum '43 and Hugh Catkins '43. "It isn't easy to sort out who initiated what action and when," Kilbridge said. "There were many people involved--President Pussy, members of the Visiting Committee, faculty members, students and others--who were trying to effect change, and there was in the planning department this entrenched group. We've all been defendants from the start...
TIME's Man of the Year was interviewed by Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Managing Editor Henry Grunwald last week at the White House. With them were Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and White House Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. Excerpts...