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...inspired some leisure-time cousins: small, rugged vehicles that are designed for camping, recreation and family hauling. To satisfy this market, Chevrolet has introduced the Chevelle El Camino, Ford has brought out a Ranchero on a Falcon chassis and a rugged, all-purpose Bronco roadster. Harvester is pushing its Scout, and Kaiser has a strong-selling civilian model of the Jeep...
Bothered Brethren. To many Washingtonians, Moyers is one of the squarest guys in town. Because of his Baptist credentials, his cottage-cheese complexion and Sunday-school propriety, he is likely to have trouble shedding the Eagle Scout image. Yet, insists Dr. DeWitt Reddick. director of the University of Texas Journalism School, where Moyers was a straight-A student: "There's nothing sanctimonious about him." And, press critics to the contrary, he was never a Boy Scout...
...thing. Nobody, including Sandy Koufax, had any idea how good he was to become when, as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Cincinnati, he was spotted playing on a sandlot team. In 1954, Sandy signed a Dodger contract for $6,000 plus a $14,000 bonus. Scout Al Campanis wrote in his memo to Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley: "No. 1, he's a Brooklyn boy. No. 2, he's Jewish." The Dodgers' move to Los Angeles was still four years away. In the meantime, says General Manager Buzzie Bavasi, "there were many...
Died. Thomas Bertram Costain, 80, prolific author of bestselling historical novels (The Silver Chalice) and some straight popular histories, who made his career as an editor of Canada's Maclean's magazine and the Saturday Evening Post and as a story scout for 20th Century-Fox until at 55 he decided, "If I was ever going to write, I'd better start right away," produced 20 readable yet scholarly works that have sold some 15 million copies since 1942 and resulted in several movie epics; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...hero, by contrast, comes off remarkably well. He is a "rich, rich writer," an "incomparable" reporter, an elephant hunter who makes Hemingway look like a boy scout, a backchat merchant who is "one of the funniest men alive," a "poontang kid" who is "really great in the sack," a friend of Toots Shor. He is, in fact, a man who has everything-including a couple of things Author Ruark wanted and never quite attained: a Pulitzer Prize and a civilized prose style...