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...Fellow Musicians Carole King and Danny Kootch. Atlanta Correspondent Peter Range journeyed to Chapel Hill, N.C., to visit with Mother Trudy Taylor about everything from her son James' tree-climbing habits to her daughter Kate's budding career. He interviewed the singer's father, Dr. "Ike" Taylor, the busy dean of the University of North Carolina Medical School, by flying with him to Chicago one evening...
James Taylor managed to grow up in two of the most beautiful places in America. Boyhood winters were spent in a specially designed eleven-room house on 28 acres of North Carolina woodland and pasture near Chapel Hill. His hard-working doctor father, Isaac ("Ike") Taylor, independently wealthy and from an old Scottish-Southern family, was busily working his way up to the deanship of the University of North Carolina Medical School. "We quite consciously set out to raise our children free of the hang-ups we see in ourselves and our generation," Dr. Taylor explained recently. "We weren...
...those days there was plenty of everything, including time and money. John Sheldon, a friend of Livingston Taylor, remembers that many days were passed taking apart motorboat engines and trying to soup them up. "We dropped a few overboard," he says, "but ruining expensive stuff was the usual. Ike always provided replacements." In those days, too, Dr. Taylor led in singing sea chanteys and folk songs at cookouts on the beach. At 15, James, along with Danny Kootch, won a hootenanny contest, singing and accompanying themselves with harmonica and guitar. In their early teens, Livingston and James used to turn...
...IKE many vacation-bound Americans, Richard Nixon had ambitious reading plans during his three-day rest in the Virgin Islands last week. He took along three books, each of them "dull," he said. It is not known how much reading he got done in all that sunshine, but one selection, Robert Blake's biography of Benjamin Disraeli,* was especially apt. The great Tory, who 100 years ago led his country into a memorable period of progressive reform, once wrote: "All power is a trust . . . we are accountable for its exercise; from the people, and for the people, all springs...
...Russell had opposed John Foster Dulles' proposal to commit military advisers to Viet Nam. "If you send 200 now," the Senator warned President Eisenhower prophetically, "you'll have to send 20,000 before it's over." When Ike decided to send them anyway, Russell loyally turned, in his own words, from dove "into a screaming hawk." Said he: "When the Commander in Chief committed our flag and our forces to that unhappy land, he committed...