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...Married. Norton Simon, 64, industrialist, art collector and maverick California Republican who spent nearly $2,000,000 in an unsuccessful 1970 Senate primary contest; and Jennifer Jones, 52, actress and 1943 Oscar winner for The Song of Bernadette; he for the second time, she for the third; on a yacht in the English Channel...
Money, of course, is a huge problem in waging a campaign against a President. Some 35,000 supporters have so far written or telegraphed McCloskey to cheer him on, but they have donated only $10,000. McCloskey has another $10,000 from California Industrialist Norton Simon, a liberal antiwar Republican, with a vague promise of more if, explains McCloskey, "I measure up as a candidate." The relatively unknown three-term Representative has light-years to go before he can make that claim; a recent Gallup poll of registered Republicans showed that only 1% would want him to be the party...
...word-but it cannot guarantee that the household will vote for him. Too many other factors determine an election. No matter how much he might have spent on campaigning, it is most unlikely that Barry Goldwater could have defeated Lyndon Johnson for the presidency in 1964. In 1970, Industrialist Norton Simon, despite a bottomless purse, could not win the Republican senatorial nomination in California from the vulnerable, venerable incumbent, George Murphy. Regardless of his gifts, or the size of his war chest, a Republican candidate for Congress in Mississippi starts with two strikes against him; so does anyone who runs...
...this was decisively demonstrated last week in Parke-Bernet's Manhattan auction rooms, where Millionaire Norton Simon was putting some of his $80 million collection on the block...
...Crimson's Bill Biele took first place in the high jump, hurling himself 6'6" in his best jump of the year. He was two feet off Army's Pete Frolich. Teddy DeMars threw the hammer 183', his farthest throw ever, and took second place for Harvard. Joe Norton took first place in the shot put at 53' 13/4" while DeMars took second...