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...just seven years, David Owen has effected what many refer to, only half jokingly, as the Winthrop Renaissance. Taking over a House distressingly like its "jock" stereotype, he has quietly but successfully created a diverse and exciting student community. Owen's concern for undergraduates and their activities seems endless. His ability to remember the names and problems of each man in the House is legendary. Weekly teas, presided over by the Master and his vivacious wife, Louise, have become crowded discussion sessions that invariably last past their scheduled closing time. The Master's hand is evident everywhere...
...Scranton, who rarely has appeared outside his own state, has political speeches scheduled in New York, Detroit, Kansas City, Indianapolis and New Haven. Already, Scranton had become the pundits' and editorialists' winter-book favorite (see THE PRESS). The New York Herald Tribune, owned by Millionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, all but endorsed Scranton last week in a 1,000-word editorial that said: "Neither the most liberal nor the most conservative of Republicans, he appears to be a common-sense man, one who could mobilize the best in all branches of the party, one with whom both...
...days later, the other half of Greentree Stable had some sharp words about the treatment of four-footed athletes by two-footed businessmen. Speaking at the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Payson's brother, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 59, told horsemen that with the "monumental exception" of Kelso (see SPORT), thoroughbred "mediocrity has been so spectacular that it can no longer be ignored." Why so? Simply because commercialism is taking over the sport, said Jock. "The rewards, whether for winning or for losing, offer almost irresistible temptations to race a two-year-old more than is good...
...more difficult role than his Oscar performance of Bridge on the River Kwai, Guinness makes Colonel Jock Sinclair a three-dimensional personality seldom found in portrayals of a standard sort of crude-but-lovable Highland officer. In Kwai, Sir Alec had to be inflexible to the point of personal sacrifice, but as Sinclair he must be selfish to the detriment of all that he loves. The Colonel claims to love his battalion, yet be lets personal spite bring dissention, disgrace, and finally tragedy down upon it; he pronounces his affection for his daughter (Susannah York), yet he treats...
...Sleeve. And Field had yet another ace up his sleeve: Jock Whitney. For more than a year. Field had argued that two such ardent Republicans as he and the Herald Trib's boss were a natural pair, one that certainly made more sense than Graham's oil-and-water mixture of Norman and Otis Chandler's conservative Los Angeles Times and the liberal Washington Post. Whitney finally agreed to tie the Herald Trib's small though distinguished syndicate (54 papers) to Marshall Field's big one-a union that, once consummated, will put Field very...