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John Hay Whitney, 56, had no sooner doffed his Homburg as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's than Senator Kenneth Keating tried to throw it in the ring for the New York City mayoralty. Thanking the upstate Republican for his kindness, Jock Whitney nonetheless thought he could do without "the leadership of this bedeviled city of ours," reported himself "committed to my responsibility as owner of the Herald Tribune." An also-run suggestion of Keating's was no more enticed by the $40,000 post. Said Banker David Rockefeller, 45, youngest of Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...each other out or charge down the track as though leading a cavalry attack, but Sellers coolly threads his way through the field with a politeness suited to a bridle path in Central Park. "I'm afraid if I got in a lot of hassles with the other jocks, I'd get so I wouldn't enjoy riding any more," says Sellers. "I just can't see the advantage of taking risks. If a jock lands in a hospital or is set down for illegal riding, why those are days in which...
...Word. Papers such as Jock Whitney's New York Herald Tribune warned Jack Kennedy beforehand not to do it. If Bobby wants to be a politician, said the Trib, let him run for office and earn his place. The San Francisco Chronicle enjoined the President-elect against even mentioning Bobby's name as a trial balloon: "The press and the public would be justified in shooting it down in flames...
...Tunes of Glory, the screen version of James Kennaway's moody and affecting novel, Jock is both hero and villain of a garrison tragedy. The tragedy begins when Jock, as acting C.O., is superseded by "a spry wee gent" (as Jock ripsnortingly describes him) "wi' tabs in place o' tits." The new colonel (John Mills) is in fact a rather glum plate of porridge, but he is just what the battalion needs on the morning after old Jock's riotous regime. He tightens up training procedures, clears out the administrative mess...
...Jock of course takes it all as a personal affront, and when the new boy outrages the other officers too-by suggesting that the manner of their footing in the fling, a point of pride in kilted regiments, is a disgrace to Scotland-Jock sees his chance and takes it. At the next regimental rout he defiantly leads a drunken reel. The colonel throws a tantrum, disgracing him self before his officers and the battalion before its guests. But the triumph and the whisky go to Jock's head, and he makes an even more costly blunder than...