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...some readers had a hard time following the meaning of this convoluted prose, one reader grasped it immediately. The man described in the ad as the "embalmer" came suddenly to life and grabbed the phone. It was midnight, but New Yorker Editor William Shawn put in a call to Jock Whitney, publisher of the Herald Tribune, and said he was worried about the upcoming story...
...clear," said John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune and former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, "that though I have worked at journalism, I am here primarily because I am a millionaire." But it was as a journalist that "Jock" Whitney had been invited to Colby College, in Waterville, Me., to accept Colby's honorary Elijah Lovejoy fellowship.* And it was very much as a journalist-and publisher-that Whitney spoke...
...London registry office last week (he is an Anglican, she a Roman Catholic), Sir Winston sent Lady Clem to the ceremony alone. But the bridal party dropped round afterward to raise a toast with the grand old man, whom they found in the company of his plump cat, Jock...
...astonishing five winners in seven mounts, followed this two days later with a triple. Last week he was a triple winner again, won seven other races, bringing his season's record on the country's toughest, most competitive track to 131, and making him undisputed top jock at the Big A. (Johnny Rotz, in second place, has only 79 wins.) Ussery has never won the Kentucky Derby. But day in and day out, one out of every four horses he rides triggers the winner's photo; one out of every two at least places or shows...
...sold 51% of the royalties from his James Bond thrillers to Britain's Booker Bros., a worldwide investment group. Though "all of me from the neck up" is now in Bondage to Booker, Fleming could at least afford a spot of Beluga caviar. Said the new boss, Sir Jock Campbell: "We've acquired a business with minimal management worries...