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Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn will not let TV men cover House hearings, and bars them from his own press conferences. For space reasons, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty keeps TV cameras out of regular briefings in his crowded office, but when he has a visitor he wants to "sponsor"-as the White House press corps puts it-he sets up a special show for TV. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson grants TV newsmen only a brief audience after his regular press conference, insists that they submit their questions in advance and explodes if they try to ring...
...Visitor. In 1957, for the light he had shed "on the problem posed in our day by the conscience of man," Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature-the youngest man except Kipling ever so honored. With the money, he and his wife bought a Provencal farmhouse near the village of Lourmarin. There, with their 14-year-old twins, they put their marriage together again. Camus' friend Michel Gallimard, the nephew of his publisher, stopped last week with his wife and daughter on his way from Cannes to Paris. The car he was driving was a sleek Facel Vega...
...interested visitor at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., two-year-old Clifton Truman Daniel, self-nicknamed "Kiffie." was trailed by watchful Grandpa Harry S. Truman as the lad explored the building. Chuckled Harry later and a bit breathlessly: "I had to go some to keep up with...
...balmy Los Angeles night into the offices of the Times (circ. 496,337) stepped a mysterious visitor. To the man behind the desk he exhibited the engraving of a full-page ad: Would the paper run it in its Christmas issue next day? The visitor produced $2,500 in cash, and the Times took the money and the ad. Soon the visitor's full-page message was rolling by the thousands off the Times's presses. In due course a composing-room hand, routinely checking all ads for typographical errors, came to this one. His eyes widened...
Last week the red-faced Times said that its Christmas Eve visitor - who proved to be Thomas Lockyer Graeff, a 30-year-old Angeleno who is petitioning to get his name legally changed to Jesus Christ II -had not come back to reclaim...