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...Frankel last week summoned his top associates to lunch and proposed a toast: "To the Sunday department." It was a farewell salute; he informed them that the Sunday operation, after more than 50 years of autonomy, was being combined immediately with the daily paper under Managing Editor A.M. ("Abe") Rosenthal, 54. Frankel...
Times staffers, whose assiduity in reporting on in-house power shifts can rival that which they display on their own beats, lost no time proposing Kremlinological explanations. The first instant replay went: "Max lost, Abe won." Relations between the two had known points of strain since Frankel moved up from Washington bureau chief three years ago to command the Sunday edition. It was said that Frankel would sometimes commission pieces for his Sunday paper after learning daily staffers were already working on the same subject. In turn, Times managing editors have itched for years to seize the Sunday department...
...Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln had four children, only one of whom, Robert, had any children. In turn, only one of those three children, Jessie, had a child, and that sole offspring, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, has only one child, Timothy, now seven, who is therefore Abe Lincoln's only direct descendant. Or is he? The elder Beckwith is at present in court denying he is the boy's father. In England such a hassle might well involve a title. In the U.S. the issue is a divorce-and perhaps a trust fund worth more than $ 1 million...
...York's Mayor Abe Beame called him "the only chairman of the board who isn't giving me trouble these days." In fact, Frank Sinatra, 60, had no reason to give anyone trouble during last week's Friars Roast in Manhattan. With 1,000 guests crammed into the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the singer ego-tripped through 4½ hours of praise and put-downs from Comedian Don Rickles, New York Governor Hugh Carey and a dais full of old chums. The $200-and $500-a-plate dinner also brought a visit from one hardy...
With greater employment, Udall foresees the easing of the financial problems of American cities. "The pressure would be taken off Abe Beame and Kevin White and the other mayors, and the revenue would go up because more employees would be paying taxes," he said...