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...newcomer, such as George Nigh, 31-year-old high school teacher and state representative who is running for lieutenant governor. Washed out along with oldtimers from the statehouse were veteran legislators, judges and 15 county sheriffs. Since Democratic nominations are as good as election in Oklahoma, Edmondson (a mild Scotch-and-water man himself) and his friends set to organizing the new administration, which takes over Jan. 1. High on their list of things to do: hold the repeal vote...
While other Boston newsmen still searched, Bernard Goldfine turned up in Chestnut Hill, invited the TIME-LIFE crew in for a detailed 3½-hr. interview, nightcapped it with a Scotch and water. At 3 a.m., Correspondents Jarvis and Gart got back to their office and started a stream of file copy to the Manhattan editors that ended a full twelve hours later. By that time, much-sought Bernard Goldfine had once again retreated, apparently into thin air, and at week's end was still the object of search by Boston's harried newsmen. For the story...
...friends such as Adams and Payne. By his standards his was the open, honest hand of friendship, and what he got in return was only the kind of help one friend would render another. Says one of his closest Boston friends: "He's a name dropper and a Scotch drinker, and he has a weakness of talking too much, dropping too many names and things." By last weekend his lavish hand and careless tongue had dropped considerably the name of the best of his friends, Sherman Adams...
...soon wore "red trousers and bobbed hair," wrote surrealist poems that he knew were nonsensical ("one funny one went through three anthologies"), graduated to a mental hospital where he was classed as "schizophrenic." For a while he lived with a Scotch-Greek girl of 17, who took baths "with an old man for ten shillings, and bought [our] food...
...education's better ironies is that the broad, stately river of classified knowledge named Encyclopaedia Britannica began 190 years ago in a clear, sparkling rill of Scotch whisky. The tale of the encyclopedia's turbulent course from the Edinburgh workshop of hard-drinking Editor William Smellie to its present serene residence at the University of Chicago is told in The Great EB (University of Chicago Press; 339 pp.; $4.95) by Herman Kogan, drama critic and books editor of the Chicago Sun-Times...