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Headless Man. A reform-minded judge who once declared that "it is impossible to draw the line between crime and sin," Lord Denning, 64, set about his assignment by interviewing 160 Britons, ranging from Harold Macmillan (twice) to Call Girl Mandy Rice-Davies, who gushed: "He's the nicest judge I ever met." He checked into the Argyll divorce case, in which an unidentified lover of the duchess-known as "the headless man" because his face had been cropped from nude snapshots that were introduced at the trial-had been rumored to be a Cabinet minister...
Through it all, the gals decided that the Miss America contestant who was nicest was Jeanne Flinn Swanner, 19, Miss North Carolina. So they elected her Miss Congeniality. She was also the tallest (6 ft. 2 in.); the contest's shortest contestants, Melissa Stafford Hetzel, 21, Miss Vermont, and Flora Jo Chandonnet, 20, Miss Florida (both 5 ft. 3 in.) came barely to her shoulder. But friendliness and size don't win contests. So when the judges brought in their verdict, medium-sized (5 ft. 61 in.), well-deployed (35-23-35), not-quite-so-congenial Donna Axum...
...reader is well ahead of these cartoon types: half the book is over before they have grasped the fact that there are no outside commitments whatever left to keep them all from integrating in the nicest way. But the children (abandoned by Wylie's old enemy-their Mom) have the right word for all this horror show. "Geography," they say as they tend their lessons down below. "Geography, fui!" Also, history, philosophy, art, science and probably theology. In the outcome of the Wylie fable, all these little things are left in the hands of the Australians...
...abroad. "There is a great appetite here for learning what the foreign press has to say," says Miss Worley, stepdaughter of Copley Press Founder Ira C. Copley. "How many Americans know how brilliant Italian journalism is, for example, or, for that matter, what's being said anywhere? The nicest comment we've had was from a reader who said, 'Atlas takes the surprise, if not the sting out of the headlines.' How often are you flabbergasted to read of some embassy being stoned when all along you thought things were just fine there-wherever...
...That thump on the front porch this morning," said Phyllis Wudi, a Milwaukee secretary, "was the nicest sound I've heard for eight weeks." The thump was the Milwaukee Sentinel, appearing again after an eight-week American Newspaper Guild strike. But in reality, Hearst's ailing old Sentinel (circ. 192,167) was no more. During the strike it had been sold for $3.000,000 to its independent rival, the afternoon Journal (372,276)-which promptly rushed its new buy back into print, but dropped the Sunday edition...