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Died. Ralph Gilmour Brooks, 62, a fast-talking (once clocked at 487 words per minute and nicknamed "Babbling") school superintendent who in 1959 became the first Democratic Governor of Nebraska in 18 years, was running this year for the U.S. Senate; of a heart attack; in Lincoln, Neb...
...Lancaster (Pa.) Free Public Library, youngsters borrowed eight times as many books in 1958 as in 1954. The population of Lincoln. Neb. has risen 30% in the past ten years, but book borrowing has doubled. At the 80 branches of New York City's public library system, up to half of last year's adult-book circulation came from borrowers aged 13 to 18. And the trend is away from shallow stuff. Toledo and Indianapolis wage a constant battle to replace literary classics worn out by youngsters. Other cities report that youngsters now borrow far more serious nonfiction...
...Charter Stretcher. Ex-Im's current president is Samuel Clark Waugh, 70, a Lincoln, Neb. banker who took over in 1955. Under Waugh, loans last year hit a record $535.9 million. Waugh has stretched his charter a bit to keep Ex-Im operations flexible. Sample: massive stabilization loans ($100 million to Mexico, $25 million to Chile) are not meant to be spent but to give a psychological lift to a currency threatened by inflation or devaluation. But further than that Waugh will not go, or even look. "I'm a lender, not a giver," he says...
...last week to dispel them with a pledge of a dynamic, hard-hitting campaign that is already in the works. "Anyone who does not recognize that we are in for the fight of our lives must be smoking opium," he told a huge Republican rally in Lincoln, Neb. "I believe we will win, but we must expect this to be one of the closest and hardest fought campaigns in America's political history...
...Advertising Federation of America convention in Lincoln, Neb., Merle S. Jones, president of CBS Television Stations Division, said television "is being attacked systematically, casually, directly and indirectly from every quarter. The public is being constantly reminded of our alleged sins in the daily press throughout the land, and significantly the stories are moving to the front pages and the editorial page. Heaven knows, television stations, their programs, their operating policies and their procedures are being quite thoroughly reviewed and previewed by the press...