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...Goldwater press aide had been up almost all night celebrating his boss's victory. Now, as the telephone rang in his hotel suite, he struggled from bed, picked his way through a litter of empty champagne bottles, listened briefly and wearily. Before stumbling back to the bedroom, he told waiting reporters: "Okay, we've made it official about Bill Miller...
...night that My Fair Lady opened, Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner waited nervously in the 21 Club for news of the critics' reactions. The telephone rang at last. Lerner listened silently for several minutes, then turned to Composer Fritz Loewe and said softly: "The iceman cometh...
...their graves and offered himself as a guide. Followed by two battalions, Colonel Call flew in a helicopter to the spot indicated by the prisoner. Sure enough, there was a neat graveyard with a white gate. The helicopter sat down on a paddy near the graves. Suddenly shots rang out. Both pilots were slightly wounded, but Call and Chaplain Aubrey Smith made it back to the chopper, and the chaplain fired several shots at the enemy. "I was carried away," he explained...
...spoke with neither resignation nor despair. But there was pride in a long lifetime of accomplishment, and his voice rang with the dauntless curiosity of an old man facing the diminishing future. "This is my final word," said William Maxwell Aitken, the first Baron Beaverbrook, at his 85th birthday party (TIME, June 5). It was, indeed, his valedictory. Last week at Cherkley, his gloomy Victorian estate in Surrey, the Beaver's heart, which had endured so long despite bouts with asthma, sciatica and gout, finally failed...
...students were satisfied with the "gentleman's C" often acquired through last minute cram courses at private tutoring schools. Faculty members met the problem of a rather disinterested student body in different ways. Kittredge maintained stern discipline during his lectures. If a student left the room when the bell rang and Kittredge was still speaking he would walk out in the hall and bring the student back in. Santayana dispensed with disciplinary measures and selected a small group of undergraduates with whom he worked most of the time...