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Matthau, who plays a hard-case bookie named Sorrowful Jones, has just violated his principles by offering credit to a tapped-out loser, taking in return only...
...assume Us's existing subscription liabilities, estimated at about $4 million. It will also pay the Tunes Co. more than $5 million out of the magazine's future profits, if there are any; the Times Co. sank $10 million into Us, but it remained a perennial money loser. All but a handful of the 35-member editorial staff will be dismissed. Says Peter J. Callahan, president and owner of Macfadden: "We will keep the same basic editorial thrust for the time being...
...that crinkly and blandly familiar face from scores of old movies on afternoon TV, that two-time loser for the Republican presidential nomination who has not been elected to any public office for a decade. Ronald Reagan, 69, seemed so complacent and venerable a Republican front runner that he hardly campaigned at all in Iowa, and his jarring defeat there at the hands of peppy, preppy George Bush, 55, prompted many of his followers to wonder whether he could ever make a comeback. The most reliable public polls on the eve of the New Hampshire primary rated him no more...
...announcing his decision to run again, Trudeau explained: "My duty is to accept the draft of my party. That duty was even stronger than my desire to re-enter private life." Among the personal tugs, presumably, was an understandable desire not to go into history as a loser but to seek vindication for last May's defeat...
...clear loser in all this is Roger Mudd, 52, who has been understudying Cronkite for the anchor role for almost a decade. But some CBS executives noted that Mudd, though an experienced Washington correspondent, has never worked overseas, is not the compliant sort of company man that CBS appreciates, and is thought by some at the network to appear a bit too stolid on the screen. Still, Mudd was so sure he had the job that he recently refused to fill in one week for Cronkite; he wanted to go skiing instead. "I think he overestimated his hand," says...