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...sports publicity office of Ohio State University. The next year he became travelling press secretary for the Cincinnati Redlegs. In each town the team visited, Reston went to the local newspaper and asked for a job. After eight months he got one-through his high school friend Milton Caniff, later of Steve Canyon fame-with the Associated Press in New York. He wrote sports features, and for a time a chit-chat column about books and theatre called "A New Yorker at Large...
HOLIDAY ON ICE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A color special from the Palais du Sport in Paris featuring several world champion skaters, a skating chimpanzee, and Maïtre des Cèrèmonies Milton de Berle...
...more radical proposal is the "negative income tax" theory of University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, a former Goldwater braintruster. He proposes that the Federal Government set a $3,000 yearly income as the minimum for a family of four, and pay a man 50% of the difference if he falls below that figure; to give the man 100%, says Friedman, would deaden his initiative...
...trivia. Edwin Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky alphabetized all the major trivialities and arranged them so that you can't see the answer without having the person in the next stall at Lamont know you're cheating. A special twenty-question section for the connoisseur, even asks you to name Milton Berle's mother. (No, not Mrs. Berle.) A reading period necessity published by Dell for only fifty cents...
Hardison, says Neil Forsyth, a graduate student from Britain, "understands more of Aristotelian thought than anybody who taught me Aristotle at Cambridge." When one of Hardison's lectures on Milton and the Puritan period ended, Forsyth adds, "I wanted to stand up and cheer." Hardison admits to having some off days when "you wonder whether you are professing anything except ignorance. Sometimes I tell my best jokes and get nothing but lumpish faces staring back...