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...Oveta Gulp Hobby, Eisenhower's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, acknowledges the existence of a "friendly" rivalry, but appears unwilling to engage the Chronicle at any level. She may have to. Editor Steven has been promised continuing editorial freedom by Chronicle President John T. Jones Jr., nephew and heir of Jesse Jones, the Chronicle's longtime publisher and F.D.R.'s Secretary of Commerce. This is the sort of invigorating climate in which Bill Steven thrives. Said he, surveying the busy Chronicle newsroom, where his own enthusiasm has obviously taken root: "You cannot define talent...
Prof. Howe will reportedly ask Speaker of the House John W. McCormack to make every effort to secure passage of the entire bill. Howe was a prominent backer of the Speaker's nephew, former Attorney General Edward J. McCormack, Jr., in his unsuccessful Senatorial primary campaign against Edward M. Kennedy '54 last year...
...nephew of Philosopher Albert Schweitzer, Schweitzer was born in Alsace-Lorraine, is a member of the small French Protestant elite that has played a role in French banking out of proportion to its numbers. He joined the French treasury in 1936 after graduation from Paris' Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, went underground as a Resistance fighter after France's fall in 1940, and spent the war's final months in Buchenwald. His education in international monetary affairs began in 1947, when he became an alternate member of the IMF board. In a succession of important French administrative...
...never a bore. With his good looks, appetite for hell-raising and rootless amorality, he follows his code of don't-give-a-damn with snakelike charm on the cattle ranch where he lives with his decent old father (Melvyn Douglas) and his idolizing 17-year-old nephew (Brandon de Wilde). Hud sleeps with married women, blitzes the countryside in a pink Cadillac convertible, and devils the ranch's devoted and attractive housekeeper (Patricia Neal) with whispered propositions...
...evil: most of his schemes backfire on him, and in the end he is left alone. His father is dead, the housekeeper has taken the Greyhound, and even de Wilde decides to strike out for some greener grassland where men like Douglas may still be. Unrepentant, Hud gives the nephew a parting shot of philosophy: "The world is so full of crap a man is going to get it sooner or later, whether he is careful or not." Then Hud swaggers into the empty house, opens a can of beer, and slams down the shade on the kitchen door against...