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...stout plebeian figure, Louis liked chopping wood and making locks. He had almost no style at all. He did not even take a mistress. The only thing he shared with other French kings was a passion for hunting. Between 1775 and 1789, he ran down 1,274 stags. Apart from recording that, his journal struck a low for an age of compulsive memoir writing. Its most common jotting was "Nothing." That, in fact, was the sole entry in his diary on the day the Bastille was stormed...
...REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "What About Ronald Reagan?" Correspondents Harry Reasoner and Bill Stout report on California's Governor-his early life, his years in Hollywood, his political career-with the help of Producer Jack Warner, among others...
Chairman-Designate Allen will be primed to greet that boom when it arrives. A stout, genial chemist with old-school ties (Harrow, Oxford's Trinity College), Allen is a steam-railway buff who has written six books (Narrow Gauge Railways of Europe, Steam on the Sierra) on the subject. A former head of I.C.I.'s plastics division and Canadian operations, he is also a cost-conscious businessman who is quick to criticize corporations for "gathering information that is not needed, collecting useless statistics and disseminating unimportant knowledge...
...were catnip both to the readers of Harper's Bazaar and to the judges of the first annual Magazine Awards given jointly by the J. C. Penney Co. and the University of Missouri. The panel awarded a $1,000 prize in the fashion and beauty category to stylish Stout-Heiress Gloria Guinness, 53, for her article in the June 1966 Bazaar deploring the "short, short, short skirt" as "that crazy young look that took over with the rapidity of a plague." La Guinness, a best-dressed, quarterly contributor to the magazine, gave the $1,000 back as a donation...
Died. Hannah Milhous Nixon, 82, mother of Richard; of a heart attack; in Whittier, Calif. Son Dick's career benefited repeatedly from her Quaker faith and stout support. When rumors of a secret fund threatened his vice-presidency bid in 1952, Hannah wired his running mate to be "guided aright" and stand up for her son's integrity. Dwight Eisenhower read the telegram over nationwide radio and obeyed her orders...