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...criminals these days, Britain's sobersided Justice of the Peace & Local Government Review set about de-mything the most admired sneaks of them all, Robin Hood and his merry men. "Friar Tuck is certainly no example of how a High Churchman should behave," sniffed the Review. Maid Marian was "certainly no 'Maid.' " As for Robin, he was simply "an outlaw who had deserted his lawful wife for fun and games in the greenwood with Marian...
...husband should inherit command. Arthur Hays Sulzberger presided over the institution with a steady hand, nudged its editorial stance toward more depth in news coverage, more interpretation and background on the events shaping the age. When Sulzberger retired from active control in 1961, he and his wife picked Daughter Marian Dryfoos' husband Orvil to run the show. After Dryfoos died in May, Sulzberger had to choose his successor again. And last week he picked his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger...
...training is not yet complete, the new Times boss can count on a seasoned hierarchy.* And Punch can certainly count on the support of the board. Presided over by his father, the board includes Punch himself and a strong family cast: his mother Iphigene, his sisters Ruth and Marian, and his brother-in-law Richard Cohen. Outsiders on the board include Vice President Bancroft, retired World Banker Eugene Black, and Carr Van Anda's son Paul. The family also holds two-thirds of the voting stock. Patriarch Sulzberger announced the masthead changes last week with understandable assurance...
THEODORE ADAMS MORTIMER J. ADLER WINTHROP ALDRICH MIGUEL ALEMÁN HENRY C. ALEXANDER GEORGE W. ANDERSON JR. MARIAN ANDERSON EDDIE ARCARO ELIZABETH ARDEN
...appears, and Marian is conveyed to a gloomy, candlelit stone pile inhabited by a coven of skulkers who might have been left over from an Orson Welles production of Wuthering Heights. There is the hulking, rock-silent retainer, Scottow, a homosexual. There is the mad hag, Violet Evercreech. And there is the young mistress of the manor, Hannah Crean-Smith. It develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that...