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...only be an "added weight" on President Kennedy. Edward R. Murrow's job as chief of the U.S. Information Agency, while welcomed by such columnists as the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston and the Christian Science Monitor's William H. Stringer, prompted Publisher John S. Knight's Miami Herald to part company, at least for the moment, with Kennedy. Although Murrow speaks with "passionate clarity," said the Herald, his self-confessed failure,as an executive at CBS renders him unfit for the post: "For once, the President is impractical...
...drive to enslave the human race. Somehow, we can't picture Kennedy being as dumb and deceitful as that." When President Eisenhower severed relations with Cuba, the Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier found Kennedy's silence "cause for apprehension," the Christian Science Monitor's William Stringer found it "traditional behavior," and the Boston Herald found it reprehensible: "An endorsement by him of the President's Cuban stand would have done him no harm and would have greatly strengthened the country's position...
...they are, in stories he wrote for a Jesuit monthly in Spain, whose publisher began collecting his pieces and printing them in paperback books (there are now nine, all brisk sellers). Father Llorente also writes, in English, for the Fairbanks News-Miner, whose managing editor rates him "the best stringer...
...only a third-stringer on the All-America teams of the A.P. and U.P.I., but Tulane's Halfback Tommy Mason (6 ft. 1 in., 195 lbs.) had the speed and strength to make the first team of the pro scouts' All-America (TIME, Dec. 12). Last week he was tapped by the newly formed Minnesota Vikings to become the first man chosen in the annual draft of college stars by the National Football League. Second man picked: Wake Forest's Norm Snead, a king-size (6 ft. 4 in., 208 lbs.) quarterback, who was picked...
...enough height to look over the offensive line. Right behind Snead the scouts rank North Carolina State's Roman Gabriel, 20 (6 ft. 3 in., 215 Ibs.), who is a junior. While the pros admire the all-round ability of Mississippi's Jake Gibbs, the first-stringer on most All-Americas, they generally rate both Snead and Gabriel as better passers for the N.F.L...