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...child who was not allowed to bathe alone until he was eight. At Harvard he was a mediocre student and rather shy with women. He did get the top editorial job at the Crimson in 1903, but that success was shadowed. Earlier he had received credit for a Crimson scoop that disclosed how Harvard's President Eliot would vote (Republican) in the 1900 national election. The information for that exclusive, as Roosevelt confessed years later, had really been obtained by a classmate...
...sleep. Change Sampat Lokhande, a farm laborer, tells a familiar story: "The fields in my village had no water. I had to leave. How do I get food? Some of us beg. Some stay in front of grain shops and wait for the grain to spill. Then they scoop it up and hurry back here...
Revival. The scoop helps the Star-News at a time when it is already picking up momentum. For years the morning Post had held a commanding position in terms of economic strength and journalistic prestige while the two afternoon papers were faltering. Last July the Star absorbed the News. The combined paper has increased advertising and reached a weekday circulation of 415,884 (compared with the Post's 519,795). It could operate in the black this quarter for the first time since 1970. In the long run, the Star-News's revival could benefit Washington readers...
Dencon Dake '73 gave the Crimson one last hope. "We'll go into the printers about ten minutes after their guy leaves and tell him to stop the presses for our new scoop...
...December. A movement is afoot to topple the most visible symbol of McGovernism, Jean Westwood. The leading plotters are George Meany, eager to help reshape the party whose candidate he disdained; his chief political lieutenant, Al Barkan, director of Big Labor's Committee on Political Education (COPE); and Scoop Jackson, one of the most vehement of McGovern's preconvention rivals. They are even supported by some McGovern followers, who describe Westwood as a "scheming nonentity." Potential replacements include Robert Strauss, the Texas lawyer who has served as party treasurer; New York State Chairman Joseph Crangle; and California State...