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...Boris Chaliapin's Fair cover reminds me very much of the movie version of that terrifying but benevolent character, "The Wizard...
...halls of metropolitan hotels, just as peaceably as the Jaycees. When race trouble flares, Klan security men, wearing white helmets, sometimes circulate through crowds, calming whites. Declares North Carolina Grand Dragon James R. Jones: "The reborn Klan is absolutely nonviolent. We don't allow rabble-rousers." Says Imperial Wizard Bobby Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Ala.: "We want the kind of people in the Klan like businessmen who build-not the kind of people who by their own inner emotions destroy what they are trying to build...
...death, Adams retired last year; since then, Jones & Laughlin has operated under two bosses working in tandem. President William Johnston Stephens, 57, an outgoing salesman type like Adams, runs the day-to-day operations. Chairman Charles Milton Beeghly, 55, who was president under Adams, manages money matters. Though a wizard at trimming costs, he says: "The steel industry is a sinkhole for money. To forge ahead, you've got to gamble...
...chain reaction, neighborhood groups, civic associations and P.T.A.s began exploding-among them a Citizens' Advisory Committee for Cambridge, including Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey, Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting, M.I.T. Chairman James R. Killian Jr. Public Relations Wizard Edward L. Bernays became so fired with the cause that he set up an Emergency Committee for the Preservation of Memorial Drive. Said Bernays: "This is a broad action to serve the public interest. The feeling of personal bereavement is terrific. Someone asked: 'Do you think we should chain ourselves to the trees?' There are people going...
...College in Chicago and was married soon after graduation to a boy "whose father was a minister, and I thought that sounded nice and permanent. We went to Mexico to live like Tolstoy." The marriage did not last, nor did her second one, to Fletcher Markle, once the young wizard of Canadian broadcasting. Her personal life, in fact, has been a long bout with a troubled psyche. A little over a year ago, her 20-year-old son was nearly killed by four attacking thugs, and soon after recovering he was back in the hospital, near death, as a result...