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...Yorker's A. J. (The Wayward Pressman) Liebling, a self-appointed spare-time judge of journalistic transgressions, has bestowed on Newhouse the title of "journalistic chiffonnier"?a French word that means "ragpicker." While Newhouse was angling for Portland's evening daily, the Oregon Journal (he hooked it last year), David Eyre, then the Journal's managing editor, pointedly referred to him in print as Samuel ISIDOR New-house." (Newhouse is indeed of Jewish descent, but his middle initial stands for nothing at all.) Last week, inspired in part by Newhouse's acquisition of New Orleans and in part...
Embryonic Celebrities. The show is perhaps of limited appeal to the average Vassar graduate who worked at The New Yorker for three years before marrying an advertising account-executive and settling in Greenwich, Conn. But there are other kinds of people in the U.S., and they have made Don McNeill the most enduringly successful broadcasting talent in the country. "Our theme is to make a neighborhood of a nation," he says. He is the archenemy of smut. His show is clean, decent, plain, straightforward, decorous, honest, and full of gimmicks like the daily snake march around the breakfast table...
...bankers' chief problem is to find ways of making this money earn enough to cover the increased interest they must pay on it. Banks are pushing personal loans with vigor-as one New Yorker learned when she went to withdraw vacation money from her savings account and was talked into taking a loan instead. Above all, with demand for business loans soft because of sluggish capital spending, bankers are concentrating on the mortgage market-and cutting their long-term rates to attract mortgage business...
...SHOT PUT: No one has yet been able to match the U.S. whales, and the only real competition in Palo Alto is likely to be between New Yorker Gary Gubner, the world indoor-record holder, and California's Dallas Long, the outdoor-record holder. The A.A.U. winner: Gubner, with a put of 63 ft. 6½ in., more than 2 ft. shy of Long's record, but still 2 ft. better than the best Russian...
...recent issue of The New Yorker, Golf Expert Herbert Warren Wind recalls that it was in the spring of 1960 that Arnold Palmer "won the Masters tournament for the second time and established himself as a most exceptional golfer." And it was then that he made our cover (TIME, May 2. 1960). Last week the great man was challenged by a brilliant young competitor. Jack Nicklaus, 22, who becomes the subject of this week's cover, written by Sport Editor Charles Parmiter...