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Somebody Up There is not distributing the talent very evenly. While many an artist is going mad trying to make a loft and a set of oils stretch into a career, the Wyeth family of Chadds Ford, Pa., moves imperturbably into its third generation of artistic luster. A new show at Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia, lets viewers see the romantic illustrations of Grandfather N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945), the universal evocations of Father Andrew (TIME cover, Dec. 27) and the prodigal realism of Andrew's son James, who is only...
...Ekins' victory could not tarnish the luster of the also-ran. The Hearst papers sent a covey of reporters west to greet Dorothy, among them her father, James Kilgallen. Everybody wept. "Waiting, waiting," sobbed Hearst Sob Sister Elsie Robinson in print: "What's the big idea-I'm not supposed to cry, just because I'm a newspaper woman . . . So, as I was saying-there came the Clipper and there came Dorothy-who looks, as I've said plenty of times before, exactly like Minnie Mouse...
...British may be underestimating their other Harold, Prime Minister Macmillan, who is every bit as wily as Wilson-and in office. If Macmillan holds off the election until next June, Tories say wistfully, Wilson's luster may have dimmed and their own limp fortunes revived. But even allowing for Labor's proved capacity for plucking defeat from the jaws of victory, most Conservatives last week agreed that their prospects have seldom been gloomier...
...Shah's land reforms have given new luster to the Peacock Throne. Massive U.S. aid ($1.5 billion since 1948) and record oil revenues of nearly $400 million this year have restored financial stability to the country. Even if the election campaign had been wide open, the Shah would have won by a landslide. Jubilant over the results, the Shah flew off to the remote region of Luristan in western Iran. There, as natives pounded big sheepskin drums in noisy greeting, he handed out land deeds to 6,000 more peasant families...
...humiliating defeat for President Charles de Gaulle added no luster to his popular prestige, which, according to the latest report of the French Institute of Public Opinion, has suffered heavily since the strike began. Citing an "evident correlation" between De Gaulle's sagging curve and the strike, the poll-taking organization said that only 42% of the public was currently "satisfied" with his handling of the presidency, compared with 55% in March and 64% in January...