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Died. Russell Westover, 79, cartoonist and onetime San Francisco Bulletin sports illustrator who in 1921 eyed the post-World War I rush of women into the working world and launched Tillie the Toiler, a chic, shapely but scatterbrained comic-strip steno who primly kept one up on the boss and the office boys until she was retired in 1959; of a heart attack; in San Rafael, Calif...
...what the term "wonk" signifies, of course varies with who uses the word; it can denote anything from all those who got a better grade on the last hour exam than the speaker to a bonafide anal compulsive bookworm. Generally speaking, the term applies to a sort of drab toiler of limited cosmic vision, whose main concern in life is his academic grade average...
...parking lot is jammed with expensive and flashy cars. Inside, the crowd is sprinkled with cinema luminaries. But they are not waiting for the floor show. "Club 55" is showbiz lingo for the Hollywood unemployment office, and the attraction is $55 a week, taxfree. Any out-of-work Hollywood toiler, even if he earned a quarter of a million in his last picture and is scheduled to start on a new one next month, can collect his $55 a week during the interim...
...election, the costly manifesto suggested that Prime Minister Macmillan intends to go to the people sooner rather than later-perhaps in the fall. Next day the Opposition burst into print with its own long-planned ad campaign featuring a new symbol, a well-knuckled Thumbs Up-the toiler's equivalent of the Tory V-for-Victory gesture-and the slogan: LET'S GO WITH LABOR. The Laborites devoted half of their first bold spread to a picture of Party Leader Harold Wilson-for once without a pipe-and used the rest of the space to explain the "changes...
Earl Edward Toiler Smith, 57, is slated to go to Bern as Ambassador to Switzerland, although the Swiss have made it clear that they are less than pleased. Financier, sportsman, onetime member of the Republican national finance committee, Palm Beach neighbor and old friend of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Smith was Ambassador to Cuba from 1957 to 1959. An ardent supporter of ex-Strongman Fulgencio Batista, Smith early recognized Fidel Castro as a pro-Communist fanatic but underestimated the strength and public support of Castro's rebel band-an oversight that helped fan the smoldering embers of Cuba...