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Britain's Lord Thomson of Fleet has never laid eyes on the Ozark mountains. But ever on the lookout for profitable little newspapers, Thomson's North American agents cast covetous eyes on the Northwest Arkansas Times (circ. 14,825) of Fayetteville. The daily has been in Senator J. William Fulbright's family since 1913; last week it became Lord Thomson's latest U.S. acquisition. It brought the total of Thomson papers in the U.S. to 56-the largest U.S. chain...
Evergreen's editors claim that they are not on the lookout for adventurous sex; that just happens to be what people are writing about. "It is the last frontier," says Managing Editor Fred Jordan. "Sex also serves other func tions and stands for things beyond itself. It can be a political statement." If sex, in fact, turns sour in so many Evergreen stories, the editors believe that is a reflection of the times, specifically the anguish over the Viet...
...trying to tell him, says a friend, is that "Bob wasn't born-he was woven by Betsy Ross." Actually, she only adopted him. Bob was born Leslie Townes Hope in a London suburb in 1903. Hope's own statement notwithstanding, his great-grandfather was not "a lookout for Lady Chatterley." His father, though, was a stonemason who took his family to Cleveland when Leslie was four...
Known in the trade as "the Pope of Video," Sullivan keeps a sharp lookout for anything that might be suggestive. He recently disapproved a Playtex bra commercial because "we don't want to show a girl in a filmy thing on a day when everyone's been to church and all." After he signed Elvis Presley for a record $50,000 for three appearances, Sullivan would not allow the camera to show the singer's gyrating pelvis. "He may be a purist," says Comic Jack...
...casual fashion, juvenile judge got to know juvenile delinquent. Wearing sports shirts and slacks or shorts, 32 judges took long walks, played ball and sipped sodas with 33 youths from the Lookout Mountain School for Boys, a reform school in Golden, Colo. And the jurists learned a few things...