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...magazine was planned four years ago by Editor Rice and Roving Editor Robert Lax, 35. Rice and Lax, a convert to Catholicism, had been talking religion since their student days at Columbia-where Rice was the godfather of another Manhattan convert, Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton. Working with Peter J. McDonnell, a printing salesman and now Jubilee's advertising manager, they financed their project by offering one share of stock with each $5-a-year subscription. When they had a slim $60,000 to go on, they put out their first issue. Now Jubilee has Editor Rice...
...that speech I referred to the case of Harry Dexter White and the manner in which it was treated by the prior Administration to illustrate how successful espionage agents had been in penetrating our Government at that time and how lax our Government was at that time in meeting such a grave problem...
...staid Mt. Auburn St. relic of the Gold Coast days, whose distance from the Houses was reputedly equalled by its lax parietal rule checkup, now has only one main door, and by that door sits a little watchman...
...corruption headed the list of Cambridge election issues and when patronage overshadowed honest qualification as basis for a municipal appointment, the city and the Cambridge Civic Association face another election. To some extent the issue is relatively clear cut, the loss of a CCA majority will bring back a lax government, dominated by self interest and designed to enrich a politically victorious few. But even the CCA has proposed some poor candidates, and voters should not blindly check its entire list of candidates...
...March 16 picture of Queen Elizabeth II removing her own wrap was disgusting . . . You called it "a moment of royal informality"; I call it plain old bad manners. Let's hope the American male doesn't take stock in this incident. They are already prone to be lax . . . As for the Duke of Edinburgh, I'm sure he must know better. SALLY HAWKINS Los Angeles...