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...daughter and his favorite child, diminutive, Vienna-trained Anna was constantly with him during the last, cancer-ravaged years of his life, has directed London's Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic since 1938. At Yale, she will do research on family life and law and participate in seminars with select scholars during the spring terms...
...signed on as skipper of Chandler Hovey's Easterner, a boat that had not won a single race in the 1958 trials; with it, he beat Columbia and Weatherly his first time at the helm. But when Owner Hovey would not give him a free hand to select a crew for this summer's trials, Mosbacher quit and joined Henry Mercer's four-year-old Weatherly...
...have a Decoder attached to his set. The pay programs are broadcast in scrambled signals, and the Decoder, which looks like a table radio, straightens them out. The subscribers pay 75? a week as a basic rental fee, plus an average of $1.25 for the programs they select. Costs are recorded on a tape in the Decoder. The viewer rips it off like a grocery bill and sends it in with his check...
...withdrew, and on the eighth ballot Alsop was nominated, 337 to May's 317. Puffing contentedly on a black pipe, Alsop dismissed the rift in the party, said: "I'm a pretty good patcher." Exit. The long count pushed the convention into an unscheduled third day to select a candidate to succeed Republican Senator Prescott Bush, 67, who had an nounced only four weeks ago that he did not have the physical strength to seek and serve another term. Immediately...
Letting Go must finally be counted a failure, although it is a failure of a quality few writers could achieve. Novelist Roth joins a select and puzzling company of young American writers-among them John Knowles (A Separate Peace}, whose second novel was disappointing, and John Updike, whose last few books have been second ones. Roth's similar floundering raises the question: Will the spreading greyness continue to muffle all the best new voices...