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ffrench-Beytagh, a Shanghai-born former hobo and odd jobber with a long-time reputation as a "fighting parson" in Rhodesia and South Africa, is free on $14,000 bail pending an appeal. Because, at 59, he is suffering from a weak heart and hypertension, he figures that if the appeal fails, "I won't come out alive, you know." Thus he is using his time to say farewell to friends...
...most significant addition was Sticht, who worked his way through Grove City (Pa.) College as a steel-mill laborer and campus odd-jobber. Sticht got his management experience at TWA and Campbell's, where he was head of the international division when the Laz ari-as Cincinnatians call the merchandising family-persuaded him to try his skills at retailing...
...phone calls and moves a shipment of bootleg bellywash. Then he runs back to the skin parlor for the second show ("This old slag takes care of her health-if she's not in bed by eleven, she goes home"). Then he runs down the street to a jobber he knows and sells him a sack of smuggled watches. Then he runs back to the dirty old men ("The next young lady you will see started out as a fan dancer-but now she has feathered her nest"). Then he runs...
...Colossal Effrontery." Son of a Virginia shoe jobber, Lewis Strauss (pronounced straws) was born in Charleston, W. Va., raised in Richmond. Chosen valedictorian of his high school class, he combined his two boyhood passions, physics and religion, in an address entitled "Science and Theology: A Reconciliation." "Fortunately," says Strauss, "this colossal effrontery has not survived...
...Chicago's radio and television stations, Lar Daly, an obscure stool jobber with an unappeased appetite for public office, is a chronic squawk of static. Each time Perennial Candidate Daly runs for mayor of Chicago or President of the U.S., he shrilly demands his full free share of the air waves.* By law he has it coming: Section 315 of the Communications Act, the so-called "equal time" provision, requires a broadcasting station to give any political candidate as much time as it gives any other-as Daly knows full well. Last week Lar Daly's insistence...