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...last week the club's "infrangible fraternity" was fractured when its twelve-man admissions committee blackballed the first Negro ever brought up for membership: Carl T. Rowan, 36, the Kennedy Administration's Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs...
...Katanga's own set of questionable facts. G. Mennen Williams, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in a Detroit speech accused the Katanga regime of fabricating "horrendous tales of indiscriminate mayhem by the United Nations troops.'' In a Philadelphia speech the same evening, Carl T. Rowan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, added the accusation that Katanga was waging a "clever big-money campaign" through a Manhattan-based Belgian public relations man named Michel Struelens, had spent $140,000 in 15 months "dispensing a string of myths" designed to make Tshombe look good...
...Winthrop players do all this, and do it well. Stanley F. Pickett as Mr. Horner is a grinning, leering wonder. Yet his part is perhaps easier than those of Mr. Pinchwife (Michael Rowan), and Mr. Sparkish (Howard Kramer), and Sir Jasper (Chuck Breyer). Rowan creates a convincing picture of a blustery old fool; Kramer is the biggest, dumbest fop you or I have ever seen; and Breyer is hilarious as the Ed Wynn-ish cuckold...
Hopping from Lagos to Nicosia to New Delhi last week with a planeload of 20 in his party, onetime Manhattan Adman Bowles wisely refrained from discussing his problems with the President. But Bowles Press Aide Carl Rowan said airily: "If Mr. Bowles was afraid of being ousted one would assume he would appear meek and cautious. Instead, he has spoken with strong conviction." And Bowles's aides were prolific with puffs about their chief. Said one: "Our man knows all the African problems, and he is clear about what stand he thinks the U.S. should take in each...
Died. Horace Rowan Gaither Jr., 51, lawyer and investment banker who served variously as assistant director of M.I.T.'s wartime Radiation Laboratory, board chairman of the prestigious Rand Corp. and president of the Ford Foundation, a powerful but little known administrator until he took center stage in 1957 with ' his controversial, still secret "Gaither Report," said to warn of perilous deficiencies in U.S. defenses; of lung cancer; in Boston...