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...Grim Reaper." To a correspondent's suggestion that Vice President Nixon's assignments from the White House (as typified by his African trip next month to witness the christening of the Gold Coast colony as the British Commonwealth member of Ghana) were still largely ceremonial, the President replied: "Even if ... Mr. Nixon and I were not good friends, I would still have him in every important conference of government, so that if the grim reaper would find it time to ... remove me from this scene, he is ready to step in without any interruption...
...disapproved of a young lady whom Philip found fascinating. Shortly, however, young Philip returned to marry the girl and his father died soon thereafter. Philip somewhat redeemed himself by his later conduct as a champion of progressive agriculture. Philip, of course, was the first man to use a McCormick reaper...
...being broken at Chicago's Presbyterian McCormick Theological Seminary-so named since 1886 because of the generous endowments of Farm Machinery Maker Cyrus H. McCormick. Last week a theology professor was showing a visitor around. "By the way," he remarked, "we never refer to death as the Grim Reaper around here. It's always the International Harvester...
...Kraft TV Theater offered the week's best dramatic fun by dusting off an old Italian chestnut, Alberto Casella's Death Takes a Holiday, which was first seen on Broadway in 1929. Actor Joseph Wiseman played the Grim Reaper taking a three-day fling at mortal follies, and was ably seconded by Stiano Braggiotti as the tortured duke and Lelia Barry as the girl who falls in love with Death. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, veteran Pat O'Brien had an actor's field day in The Chase...
Died. Chauncey McCormick, 69, millionaire grandson of William S. McCormick, one of the founders of the McCormick Reaper Co., and cousin of Publisher Robert R. McCormick (the Chicago Tribune); since 1944 president of the influential Art Institute of Chicago; of a heart ailment; in Bar Harbor...