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...discussion about California Governor Ronald Reagan's chances for the presidency, an even greater fuss is brewing over the sincerity of his hair. Purred Attorney William Coblentz, a Democratic Party strategist and regent of the University of California: "After all, Reagan is 60, and if he doesn't move soon, it'll be too late. You can dye your hair, but you can't dye corpuscles. Reagan is a menopausal Gary Grant...
Their choice is Albert H. Bowker, 51, chancellor of the City University of New York. Said Regent William M. Roth: "This is a hopeful sign that the whole university community can come together." For CUNY Board Chairman Frederick Burkhardt, it was something else. "They say no man is irreplaceable," he said. "But right now I find that very hard to believe...
Boneless Fadeaway. Ogdon and his pianist wife Brenda Lucas, together with their children Annabel, 9, and Richard, 5, live quietly in a town house on London's Regent's Park. There he seems the farthest thing in the world from what many consider him to be: a reincarnation of the flamboyant temperaments of bygone eras. His handshake is a boneless fadeaway. His response to a lengthy conversational thrust of a close friend is likely to range from a noncommittal "Mmmmmmm," to a rare "Very interesting." Brenda recalls that when she first met him at music school, he hardly...
...difficult for earnest seekers after the truth to be real persons." It urges evangelists to seek "people before converts." That did not sit too well with the Salvation Army, for whom soul winning is still the basic objective. Worse yet, the author was Salvation Army Major Fred Brown of Regent Hall, one of the Army's oldest centers in London...
...Louvre. There visitors are free to ramble past acres of pearly, naked flesh and hectares of jewels and velvet, observing Marie, attended by nymphs, monsters, peacocks, courtiers, gods, satyrs and angels, as she makes a near mythological progress from a shaky Italian girlhood to the role of Queen Regent for Louis XIII. This huge book-the year's most fabulous-acquaints the reader with the history and shows off the art far better than any number of visits to the Louvre...