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Almost everything they say about Jesse Marvin Unruh has been true at one time or another. He has been a hard-drinking political boss, wreathed in cigar smoke, with the bulk of Falstaff and the political cunning of Richard III. He has also been one of the nation's most brilliant state legislators, a reformer of the California state assembly and a studious lecturer at Rutgers and Yale. This year he is hoping to achieve another persona by defeating Ronald Reagan and becoming Governor of California. TIME Correspondent Don Neff filed this analysis of one of the nation...
...same speech impediment that tripped the distinguished tongues of Demosthenes, Aesop, Aristotle, Virgil and Winston Churchill. Demosthenes, so the story goes, cured himself of stuttering by stuffing his mouth with pebbles and competing with the roar of the surf. He may have had something. A Detroit physician, Dr. Marvin E. Klein, 33, reports remarkable results with an instrument that fills the stutterer's ears with the sound of a waterfall whenever he opens his mouth...
...editing is strictly professional. There is no pitch or special line." All CNS reports contain a complete listing of sources and their telephone numbers. The data help subscribers to use CNS stories as a starting point for their own coverage. So far the clients have been impressed. Says Marvin Siegel, an assistant metropolitan editor of the Times: "It's the sort of service every big city should have." In one recent three-week period, 71 CNS stories appeared locally...
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S EXPENSE ACCOUNT by Genera/ George Washington and Marvin Kifman, Pic. (ret.). 285 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Like most American schoolboys," says Marvin Kitman, "I had heard the story of how George Washington offered to serve his country during the Revolutionary War without salary. In one of the most stirring speeches in the annals of patriotism, he explained after his election as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in June 1775 that all he asked of his new country was that it pick up his expenses...