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...Vincent Astor Foundation, a charitable trust that he established in 1948. Since then, the rumor that Newsweek is for sale has cropped up with a persistence that has defeated the magazine's continued efforts to deny it. Last week, confronted with fresh reports, Newsweek Board Chairman Malcolm Muir, 65, said that a group of colleagues were trying...
Announced Muir: "The Newsweek management group are at present engaged in negotiating with the Astor Foundation with a view to taking over the majority interest now held by the Foundation . . . The Astor Foundation announces it is not engaged in negotiation with any other prospective buyer...
...Clarabell spoke-for the first time ever-to say "Goodbye, kids," the show's producer, Roger Muir, was grumbling offstage that sponsors were losing interest in kiddy shows, since children simply cannot offer much immediate return for the advertising dollar. But NBC is replacing the recently de-sponsored Howdy Doody with the National Biscuit Co.'s Shari Lewis. one of the best of children's entertainers and to some, at least, a consolation for Howdy Doody's last howdy...
...remains of the Trimountain is Beacon Hill, which is now a curious mixture of artists' colonies and famous houses with distinguished residents. Another peak of the Trimountain, Mount Vernon, disappeared; it used to be just above Louisburg Square (where the carollers go on Christmas Eve) and, according to Walter Muir Whitehill, appeared on most maps "quite unequivocally. . . as Mount Whoredom." To compensate for its disappearance, Scollay Square, also just beyond aristocratic Louisburg, has acquired a new sort of outdoor night life...
...Mountain Man Clyde took the long way around getting to be top climber in the Sierra. Son of a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia, he graduated as a classics scholar from Pennsylvania's Geneva College, but in 1909 he was lured to California by the writings of Naturalist John Muir. Clyde put in a dozen restless years teaching school, then quit and took to the Sierra for good...