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...Associates, a management consulting firm, to help in the search, and the names of outsiders reportedly under consideration got an almost daily workout in the New York press. The list seemed endless: McCall's Publisher A. Edward Miller, former Oil Company Executive Raymond D. McGranahan, former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, and Shelton Fisher, McGraw-Hill publication division president. Then last week the Curtis board of directors announced that its search had ended at last. The man had been found right at home...
Even as the board acted, Edward Miller and Newton Minow made announcements of their own. Miller said he was leaving McCall's to become president of Alfred Politz Research, Inc., a market-research firm that already counts Curtis among its clients. Minow told newsmen that he was taking a temporary leave of absence from his duties as executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica to work on Curtis problems as a "special counsel...
...last year's Greater Boston cross-country championships, Harvard Coach Bill McCurdy withheld his best six runners and the Crimson still finished second. This year McCurdy is going all out for the title, and his decision has sent tremors from Newton to the Fenway...
...state Republican party has erased any doubts that Senator Kennedy should be re-elected by nominating as his opponent a genuine nonentity. Howard Whitmore has only several terms as mayor Newton and a conservative philosophy to qualify him for national office. It hardly seems possible, but in 1964, Ted is the superior candidate on grounds of experience...
...second and concluding act, the audience finds out why. The physicists were merely feigning madness, and the nurses were getting wise to their game. In fact Newton and Einstein are secret agents-for the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., respectively-with orders to abduct King Solomon, a peerless physicist from an unnamed third country who has solved "the problem of gravitation." This invites some windy word slinging about how a scientist may best preserve his probity. Solomon convinces his colleagues that they should all stay in the madhouse, because "we physicists have to take back our knowledge." However, in an ironic...