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Several antiques from the 18th century remain us useless and costly impediments to efficient government. The colonials instituted the Governor's Council out of suspicion of George III's governors, but today no one considers Furcolo or Volpe despotic enough to merit such a millstone. Yet the Council remains, duplicating other posts, clogging bureaucratic channels and obstructing the chief executive. The county government as well (except for its courts) serves no purpose other than devouring the state's taxes...
John Bouvier III was a swarthily handsome stockbroker who cut a dashing figure around New York and, because of his year-round suntan, was known variously as "Black Jack," "the Black Orchid" and "the Sheik." His marriage in East Hampton to Janet Lee, the handsome daughter of an indigo-blueblooded, wealthy (Manhattan real estate, banking) family, was a major event in the 1928 summer season. And just one year later, the Bouvier family doctor was summoned from Manhattan to preside at the birth of Jacqueline...
Yachts, Grouse & Newspapers. Marshall Field Jr. was not always that decisive, and the Sun-Times not always that moderate. The paper began its life in 1941 as the Chicago Sun, the creation of Field's father, Marshall Field III. Heir to a department store fortune accumulated by his grandfather, the senior Field was also a fervent New Dealer and devotee of liberal causes. He founded his paper mainly to give battle to McCormick's ultraconservative, Roosevelt-baiting Tribune. The paper was something of a flop. By 1950, after turning the Sun into a tabloid, merging it with...
...paper. He cut off all family subsidy, forced the Sun-Times to pay its own way. and it now nets a handsome $1,000,000 annual profit. But his first steps were marked by uncertainty. When the Hearst organization put the failing Chicago American on the block, Marshall Field III lay dying of brain cancer in New York. Field Jr. commuted nightly by plane to his father's bedside. He was back in Chicago every morning to negotiate for the American. In the unnerving process, he was beaten by the Tribune's high bid of $14 million. Totally...
Harold J. Cohen '63, of Kirkland House and Newton, will be the Yearbook's new business manager; and Roy J. Sanderling '62, of Lowell House and Chicago, III., will be managing editor...