Word: jr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite 120-mm lens nestled in leather. He has a clutch of Arthur Adler's summer suits ready for rumpling. Tab, Fresca and coffee by the gallon are in the hold. The ghost of Everett McKinley Dirksen has been signed on. About this time Howard Henry Baker Jr. (5 ft. 7½ in., 160 lbs.) is ready to roll through 26 states, thumping and sweating and striving to be President...
...have been Big Business 25 years ago, are considered fairly small or at most middling in these inflationary days. Unlike the community of large corporations, the mass of these outfits seldom speaks with one voice on issues that affect them. Now someone wants to be their champion: Arthur Levitt Jr., chairman of the American Stock Exchange, where 95% of the 964 listed companies have revenues under $350 million. He proposes to form a lobby that would be patterned after the Business Roundtable, whose members include the chiefs of 190 of the nation's biggest corporations. His organization, Levitt says...
George Gallup Jr., who is an Episcopalian as well as a pollster, reported on a national random survey of 512 Episcopal laity and 654 clergy showing that 63% of lay members still prefer the old prayer book. Only 23% are for the new. Episcopalians no longer active in the church are more heavily in favor of the 1928 book than active members, and champions of the old book feel much more strongly than those who like the new. Gallup's data also show a church divided against itself: an overwhelming 80% of the clergy favor the modern prayer book...
BORN. To Donny Osmond, 21, co-host of TV's Donny & Marie show, and Debra Glenn Osmond, 20: a son, their first child; in Provo, Utah. Name: Donald Clark Jr...
...taste for good writing. At a time when Ernest Hemingway's stories were too unconventional for the Post, Gingrich admiringly sent him free slacks and a windbreaker, and got him as a regular contributor. For Esquire's first issue, Hemingway brought with him Ring Lardner Jr. and John Dos Passos. Gingrich believed that an editor edits best who edits least. Esquire's third element was sex-from the Petty and Varga pinups to harem cartoons- which got the magazine in early trouble with the postal authorities...