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Died. Bobo Newsom, 55, showboating South Carolina-born major-league pitcher for 24 years, whose roundhouse skill on the mound (211 victories for nine different clubs) was matched only by his foghorn braggadocio; of intestinal hemorrhage; in Orlando, Fla. Born Louis Norman Newsom, he always referred to himself and everyone else as "Bobo,'' drove around in a custom-built car with a two-tone bobo horn and his name in gold leaf a foot high on the dashboard. He was magnetic to baseballs, at various times broke his thumb, his kneecap, his leg. Pitching against the Yankees...
Hester learned how to raise money, which is a good way to succeed in U.S. education. Just one year ago N.Y.U. made him dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. When President Carroll V. Newsom resigned in September. Hester was the logical insider to step out front. He knows the intricacies of N.Y.U.'s vast operation at 15 schools and colleges. Not yet through with a drive for $102.5 million. N.Y.U. is already off on another drive for $75 million, and young President Hester is likely to face many more. Now, he says, "I am thoroughly committed...
THOMAS R. NEWSOM Kowloon, Hong Kong...
...National Association of Manufacturers, the coeducational university not only provides the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a new liberal arts campus open to all faiths; it is also the only college in the area to take in Negroes on the undergraduate level. ¶Appointment of the week: Carroll Vincent Newsom, 52, to succeed Henry T. Heald as president of big (37.000 students) New York University. Carroll Newsom took his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, eventually became not only a top mathematics teacher, but a prolific producer of mathematics texts. At 29, he was head of the mathematics department...
National Grange (of the Patrons of Husbandry), Washington, D.C. Patriarch of U.S. farm organizations, counting 875,000 members in 37 states, concentrated in the Northeast (Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Maine) with large outcroppings in the Pacific Northwest. Master: plainspoken, Indiana-born Herschel D. Newsom, 51. Founded in 1867 as a fraternal lodge for farm families, the Grange still holds to some of its secret rituals, goes in less than the other farm organizations for lobbying. It supported this year's farm bill, but generally stands somewhere between the Farm Bureau and the Farmers Union, favors a commodity...