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...fullback at Yale ('27), as an upstate New Yorker served ten years in the state legislature. He moved to Washington in 1945, held a variety of executive posts (e.g., E.G.A., Civil Defense) before joining Lodge. At the U.N., affable James Wadsworth was in steady demand at parties to strum his guitar and sing rich-baritone folk songs. Often he included a personal favorite, Stormy Weather, which he now, after two years of negotiating with the Russians, wryly calls "my disarmament song...
...them, the three do their best to festoon themselves in Ivy, wear button-down shirts, even chose the name Kingston because it had a ring of Princeton about it as well as a suggestion of calypso. Sporting close-cropped hair and a deceptive Social Studies i-A loo, they strum guitars and banjos, foam like dentifrice, tumble onto nightclub stages as if the M.C. had caught them in the middle of their own private party...
...Jersey mutual-fund and investment operator, Morris M. Townsend, moved in quickly, took an option to buy the old Slayton sales firms if he won the proxy battle, hired Slayton salesmen to sell Managed Funds shareholders the Townsend case. The Channing Corp., headed by Kenneth S. Van Strum, which operates eight mutual funds worth $218 million, challenged Townsend. It pointed out to Managed Funds' stockholders that, if Townsend won, the Slaytons would reap another profit through the sale of Slayton firms to Townsend. This proved a decisive argument to disgruntled proxy voters; last week Channing won handily...
Whatever the reason, Columbia has one set of listeners singing along in earnest-its competitors at RCA Victor. By last week, Victor had three imitations in the stores, lavish albums lined with paper that looks like the kind used for $20 bills. Hum and Strum Along with Chet Akins, the Robert Shaw Chorale's Stephen Foster Song Book, and Words and Music with the Ames Brothers include booklets giving not only the words but also piano or ukulele and guitar chords...
...first glance, the beak-nosed Cologne engineering student seemed too easygoing to be a track champion. He practiced only a couple of hours a week, liked to sack out for a midday nap that lasted until 4, loved to strum his guitar at parties. Watching his relaxed approach to hurdling, West German sportswriters good-naturedly called him "the American from Cologne...