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...finally got the nomination, after Millionaire John Hay Whitney issued an ultimatum: if the party rejected Javits, it could cross Whitney's gilt-edged name off its contributors' list. That time Javits had to run against another Democrat with a famous political name in New York, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and again...
powers. But the next year, against F.D.R. Jr., he racked up the biggest overall vote (2,590,631) in the entire U.S. Beating Mayor Wagner for the Senate in 1956, Javits won by 458,774 votes, but lost New York City by 442,278. He never let that happen again...
EDUCATION this week runs the second installment of "Kudos" (from the Greek noun for glory; it's singular, not plural), an annual feature in TIME since 1925. Two staff members also received degrees: Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer, an L.H.D. from New York's Wagner College, and the publisher of TIME, an LL.D. from Vermont's St. Michael's College, with the citation: "Behold the whole huge world wrapped each week in red-bordered paper...
HARPER. A bleary private eye (Paul Newman) seems to view the world through the bottom of his drinking glass much as Bogart used to do, but Director Jack Smight revives a grand old tradition in slick '60s style. Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner and Lauren Bacall are among the beautiful-but-damned folk at hand...
...JOHN W. WAGNER Wagner Auto Co. Grangeville, Idaho...