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...collected plays. A longtime (1949-72) professor at New York University, where he held the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters, Edel is now teaching in a post-retirement position at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. But he journeyed to Dartmouth for the summer session, a regular academic term in the college's new full-year calendar, for a special purpose: to inaugurate the Vernon Visiting Professorship of Biography, the only chair in the country devoted exclusively to biography. TIME Education Editor Annalyn Swan attended the class and reported...
...improve the financial pages by expanding the staff and adding regular reports on careers, management, technology and other subjects. The once sternly liberal and generally predictable editorial page has brightened since its editor?and Sulzberger's cousin?John Oakes, 64, was made a senior editor last January. The new oracle-in-chief, Max Frankel, 47, a former Washington bureau chief, has moved editorial policy a little closer to Sulzberger's own middle-of-the-road pragmatism and initiated a number of features, including "Topics," a collection of short and sometimes snappy commentaries. Frankel (who reports directly to Publisher Sulzberger...
...Getty Oil Co. took it over in 1967 and later donated it to the city, making Los Angeles the third major U.S. city (after New York and Detroit) with a private mayoral residence. As for maintaining the Bradleys' lavish new quarters, apparently taxpayers needn't worry. Regular city workers will staff occasional parties without straining the municipal budget. In fact, because the mayor used to rent expensive hotel ballrooms to entertain dignitaries, the city may even save some money. All in all, the price was right. Says Bradley: "This was an offer we couldn't refuse...
...Empire State Building were quickly activated. ABC, lacking such a system, had to switch its broadcast feed clear across the continent to Los Angeles. The networks were not as successful in letting their viewers know just what had happened. All finally came across with bulletins that broke into their regular programming after...
...left the company strapped. Realizing that it could not afford to complete its two new generating plants, let alone begin construction at Storm King-even if environmental objections were overcome-Con Ed sold the two plants to the state power authority. Most dramatic of all, the company skipped its regular 450 quarterly dividend. From a high...