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...Cabinet posts in Tory governments and rejected aspirant for the prime ministership when Harold Macmillan resigned, announced that he was leaving his front-bench seat to accept a life peerage and become Master of Cambridge's Trinity College. The Labor Party's Patrick Gordon Walker, disappointed loser in last month's by-election at Leyton, announced that he had also accepted a position in the academic world-as adviser to the Initial Teach ing Alphabet Foundation, an institution that promotes the use of a 44-character alphabet as an aid in teaching children to read...
Enhancing Politics. In the 1960 presidential primary fight, Neustadt backed Hubert Humphrey until Humphrey's defeat in West Virginia, then switched to another loser, Lyndon B. Johnson. It was only in September 1960 that he joined the Kennedy team, outlining in a memorandum the matters to which a President-elect should attend between November and inauguration. Fascinated with the mystique of power, Kennedy had read Neustadt's book and told newsmen how impressed he was. This was a mistake, says Neustadt. A President should never admit that others are telling him how to run the presidency-it damages...
With a certain smile, Graduate Girl Novelist Françoise Sagan, 29, reported in McCall's (which invented togetherness) that the latest thing for a two-time loser in the Paris set, like Françoise herself, is to wear both her outdated wedding rings together. That way, a man can tell she is a "dangerous person to become serious about," while if he persists in chasing a three-or four-ring femme fatale, he is really saying bonjour, tristesse...
...team as national champion. But if our Harvard boys were to play Alabama, the outcome might be surprising--our evidence indicates Harvard would win by exactly 500 points. This evidence is based on comparative scores of games played by Harvard and Alabama and a few teams in between.... Winner Loser Points Score Harvard Massachusetts 6 20-14 Massachusetts Buffalo 2 24-22 Buffalo Delaware 37 37-0 Delaware Rutgers 9 27-18 Rutgers Boston University 9 9-0 Boston U. Geo. Washington 8 15-7 Geo. Washington Villanova 7 13-6 Villanova Toledo 16 22-6 Toledo Western Michigan...
Some Fresh Worries. Behind the rash of personnel announcements, though, many problems remained. The Saturday Evening Post, with 6,500,000 circulation, is not only Curtis' biggest magazine, but its only serious money loser with an estimated $10 million deficit this year. The board decided to make the Post a biweekly, effective with the first week in January, hoping thereby to cut losses drastically. The decision will also cause the layoff of 250 employees at Curtis' Lock Haven, Pa., papermaking plant. Perhaps as a further economy, the board chose not to replace the two rebel leaders, Editor...