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Standing on a flatbed truck in a snowstorm before the offices of the Manchester. N.H., Union Leader, Muskie defended his wife Jane against a snide bit of gossip about her in the newspaper. Its editor, the vitriolic, archconservative William Loeb, had reprinted a Newsweek item (itself a condensation of a story in Women's Wear Daily) detailing Mrs. Muskie's alleged penchant for predinner cocktails and an incident in which she supposedly asked reporters if they knew any dirty jokes. Muskie was particularly angered by the headline Loeb put on the Union Leader item: BIG DADDY...
...What's Good, What's Bad, What's New at the Movies?" Discussion with Vincent Canby (N.Y. Times film critic), Peter Bogdanovich (director of "The Last Picture Show"). William Friedkin (director of "The French Connection"). Eleanor Perry (screenwriter of "Diary of a Mad Housewife"). Penelope Gilliat, and Paul Zimmerman (Newsweek film critic), 9, March 11. Chan...
...wonder. I also wonder how such excitable young men as Jay Cocks and Paul Zimmerman, able to praise Frank Perry or Paul Williams as film masters at a moment's notice, acquired positions at Time and Newsweek held by tougher fellows long ago--James Agee and John O'Hara. Or, why doesn't Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. deem film important enough to bring some of his secular history to it to make for a relevant panache? And why did Joseph Morgenstern, one of the best of the lot, one of the few with human concerns broader than Panavision, drop films...
...biggest second-class boost of all-from $15.4 million to $42.4 million, based on 1970 circulation levels. That increase of $27 million substantially exceeds what the magazines earned last year; it amounts to approximately two-thirds of the corporation's estimated pretax profit for all activities in 1971. Newsweek's postage would nearly double in five years under the original rate request and considerably exceed its 1970 profit...
...ground as she grasps the ankles of husband GEORGE WALD (under shaft of heavenly light) while SERAPHIM and CHERUBIM (left) and HARVARD UNIVERSITY POLICE (right) fight for control of the body, attempting to transport it to their respective headquarters. With the traditional Commencement oratory flourishes tempered by what Newsweek will next week label (in its cover story) "the new frankness among college presidents", President Bok does award honorary degrees to: Kingman Brewster ("...for dedicated service to scholarship and mankind..."), H. Ross Perot ("...because he is rich...") and Beverly Sills ("...we needed a woman...