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Lost in the Jungle. The nephew of the Mirror's founder, Lord Northcliffe, King was long thought to be a major stockholder in the newspaper. In fact, he owns only 45,960 shares of a total of 35,750,000 outstanding. In addition, his wife and two of his sons have 13,905 shares. Together, the family's holding is worth some $130,000 in common stock and less than 1% in preferred stock. King is taking his reversal with his customary insouciance. "I removed my predecessor as chairman, Mr. Bartholomew," he reminded people. "You know what Fleet...
...triangle. In Nabokov's idiosyncratic geometry, all three angles are obtuse: Kurt Dreyer, fiftyish, owner of a prosperous department store, is suffused with a jocular egomania; Martha, his 34-year-old wife, beautiful and sybaritic, is dimmed by compulsively romantic restlessness and anticipation; Franz, Dreyer's youthful nephew and employee, is a myopic, precariously balanced bumpkin...
...tribal chief in organizing a harvest ceremony that will symbolize the unity of his new nation, Isma. The chief is a wily old rascal who knows a thing or two about exploiting tribal traditions for his own advantage. Kongi's more dangerous antagonist is the chief's nephew and heir, an educated young man presumably dedicated to the ideals of Western democracy...
...Step Aside. Thus the President's withdrawal promoted the McCarthy cause in somewhat the same way that George Romney's exit left Richard Nixon a clear field in this week's New Hampshire primary. McCormack, his nephew, former State Attorney General Edward McCormack, O'Brien and at least 20 others promptly resigned their delegate posts. Democratic National Chairman John Bailey explained that he had counseled Johnson to eschew the primaries, telling the President that it would be better to "forego the votes of these few states rather than step aside from leading the land and become...
...rest of the Magnificent Seven includes Robert E. Lee, 55, an ex-FBI man; James Wadsworth, 62, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Robert T. Hartley, 58, nephew of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn; and Lee Loevinger, 54, a former Justice Department trustbuster who barely conceals his contempt for television ("the literature of the illiterate") or for the FCC itself. "I think," he once told a congressional committee, "that there is grave danger that the commission is going to be so busy trying to repress yesterday's technological advances that we will still be working on them...