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DIED. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, 83, retired Air Force major general who was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II for negotiating a truce with French soldiers during the Allied invasion of North Africa; in Brentwood, Calif. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J.P. Morgan, later helped set policy for NATO forces...
...Lucas Ebry, her part time procurer, a piece of human flotsam Corde's zeal for prosecution draws fire from many quarters. The liberals in the suburbs think he may be a racist, the college administration thinks he may be a bit unbalanced. The college radicals, led by Corde's nephew. Mason are sure he is both...
...nephew as Corde saw him was in an uncomfortable stage of development Uncomfortable 'Bright light he was also bristling, writing The young racket wasn't doing him a but of good Well, the field was very crowded he was one of global millions How to rise above the rest, grab the lead--that was the challenge, and he hadn't yet figured out how this was to be done Hence the equivocal menace, a sort of announcement "Watch this space...
...defensive, Director Grade-nephew of the impresario Lord Grade-told Carson and his staff that he was "delighted" with the first shows. Grade also said that "Carson seemed a bit hurt that the U.S. papers picked up the worst quotes in the papers here" and, for a more moderate view, directed the curious to a Sunday Times column by TV Critic Russell Davies. That was largely an act of existential futility, like trying to hide from a blizzard inside a freezer. Davies wrote that the premiere Tonight show "had catastrophically equated our national tastes with those of Benny Hill," then...
...mass mind is, to Bernays, a subject of perpetual fascination. His uncle, Freud, to whom he had intimate access, stood as Bernays' intellectual ideal, but while the Viennese doctor was interested in releasing the pent-up libido of the individual, his American nephew is engaged in releasing and "engineering" the supressed desires of the crowd. In applying these ideas to American conditions for the first time, Bernays has proven that the public can be "brought to accept" anything from a Presidential personality to a new breakfast food...