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...Words a Year. David McCord has been a worthy extension of his university in more than one field. While working as a fund raiser, he has written or edited 21 books, has had several one-man shows of his watercolors. His What Cheer is the classic anthology of British and American humorous verse, and his own poems are in more than 100 anthologies. In light verse McCord has waged a furious mock battle for the "lost positive...
...works were mostly collages-cockeyed compositions of doors leading to nowhere, scraps of road maps, photographs of machinery, tiny human beings caught in endless labyrinths. They proved immensely popular. In the past three years, Verkauf has been responsible for selling about 100 pictures by André Verlon; he arranged one-man shows for him in Munich and Düsseldorf, found gallery outlets for him in Paris, Basel and Milan. Last week Verlon was on show at the Brook Street Gallery in London, and Manhattan's D'Arcy Galleries will exhibit his work next fall. André Verlon...
...serving his fifth term in the House, slumped exhausted in a chair. On the eve of the nominating convention, what had started out to be almost a one-man race had turned into a suspenseful neck-and-neck finish...
...After eleven years of one-man rule by irascible Clarence (Clancy) Sayen, the 14,000-member Air Line Pilots Association chose a new president: mild-mannered Charles Homer Ruby, 52. Backed by retiring President Sayen as a way of freezing out his arch-opponent, ALPA First Vice President John Carroll, Ruby is a onetime mechanic who has logged 20,000 flying hours in everything from chugging J-1s to jet-powered DC-8s, ranks No. 2 on National Airlines' seniority list. He inherits a Sayen-created impasse. The convention that elected Ruby also voted to continue the two-year...
...most of the past decade, Gamal Abdel Nasser's one-man rule of Egypt has rested on a two-word slogan: "Arab socialism." Brandishing this vague concept, Nasser has expropriated private property, conducted political purges, ranted against other Arab states, and modestly improved the lot of impoverished fellahin (peasants). Last week Nasser spelled out in greater detail just what "Arab socialism" is supposed to mean...