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postprimary phone call to Reagan: "Ron, congratulations, sir. You beat the hell out of me." How did Reagan do it? Bush's strategists were ready?after the vote?with a barrage of excuses. For one thing, the exhausted Bush flew home to Houston the weekend before the vote, while Reagan campaigned to the bitter end. Thus New Hampshire television viewers on Sunday and Monday saw pictures of Bush resting beside his Texas swimming pool while Reagan was doggedly plowing through chilled New Hampshire crowds?an odd contrast for a campaign in which Reagan's age was supposed...
...lawsuit is viewed with icy resentment by brokers, senior underwriters and many syndicate members. Yet the plaintiffs include many highly visible members of the clubby British Establishment, including Lord Napier, the private secretary to Princess Margaret, and Major Sir Francis Legh, equerry to the Queen Mother. Snapped one angry underwriter: "It's like getting into real trouble and saying to your parents, 'Why did you let me do it?' " Added Ian Findlay, the former chairman of Lloyd's: "There is today a feeling of unease among insurers that the principle of good faith is being steadily...
When the Sasse scandal first set alarm bells ringing, Lloyd's commissioned a review of exchange procedures from an independent "working party" headed by Sir Henry Fisher, president of Wolfson College, Oxford. Lloyd's Chairman Green expects the report, due this spring, will give him the evidence to convince Parliament that a new act is necessary. Says he: "We operate largely under the 1871 act, which creaks and groans like mad. We have to have rules to back our authority. We need discipline in the system...
DIED. Graham Sutherland, 76, English artist; of cancer; in London. Sutherland described his tortured landscapes, which blended traditional English romanticism with nightmarish surrealism, as attempts to "paraphrase the intellectual and emotional essence of reality." Although a rendering of Sir Winston Churchill at 80 was publicly reviled by its subject ("It makes me look half-witted, which I ain't"), it was Sutherland's portraits of W. Somerset Maugham, Helena Rubinstein and other notables that brought him his greatest fame...
DIED. Joseph Banks Rhine, 84, father of experimental parapsychology in America and comer of the term extrasensory perception; in Hillsborough, N.C. Fascinated by psychic phenomena after hearing a 1922 lecture on the subject by Sherlock Holmes Creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rhine later helped establish one of the nation's first parapsychology laboratories, at Duke University. His 1934 book, Extra-Sensory Perception, documented laboratory-controlled demonstrations of clairvoyance and telepathy and made ESP a household term...