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...graciousness is under pressure, she soon discovers. Her father, silver-haired Preston Woodcock III. is juggling martinis instead of balancing the family paper company's books. Her mother is outwardly butter-smooth, inwardly alum-bitter. Her cousin Woody is an effeminate dandy swooning before his hi-fi set, while sister Peggy is briskly infighting for some stock proxies to oust another cousin who "robbed us of damned near every red cent we own!" The Adam in this snaky Garden of Eden is Peggy's husband Barney Callahan. a morosely charming outlander (Massachusetts Irish) who convinces the troubled Barbara...
...five promotions on the Harvard Faculty, and their new positions, are: Gerald Holton, professor of Physics and of General Education; Max Krook, professor of Applied Mathematics and Astrophysics; Hideo Sasaki, professor of Landscape Architecture in the Graduate School of Design; William Alfred, associate professor of English; John Preston Miller, associate professor of Geology...
...green ranch house is midcentury, middle-class suburban. Its picture windows, once the pride of a wrong-armed infielder named Preston Ward (since departed for Kansas City), glare across the scrubby, rattlesnake-infested foothills toward the San Fernando Valley. As the Thunderbird flies, the place is 12 smoggy miles from the manicured canyons of Bel Air and Beverly Hills, where a movie star ought to live. By classical Hollywood standards, this pad is so far out that it might as well be in Oshkosh or Altoona or on a space platform, and the girl who lives there is even farther...
Alas for the Great White Goof [the Senate Office Building fiasco, May 25]. We Britons are acutely aware of our awful blunders of inefficiency, such as the Preston Motorway and British Railways, and I have for quite a time used examples of American efficiency to great effect in grammar-school debates. This powerful and humiliating weapon is now useless. You Americans are fatheads...
...hymn (air by Thomas Preston, words by Godfrey Lias) was far from music to the ears of the Manchester Guardian, which huffed editorially: "This has a ring of 'confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks'-the words now rightly dropped from our national anthem." The Guardian was reminded of Sir John Squire's lines...