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...other corner: Multimillionaire Contender William A. Blakley. 59 ("I want to be yawl's Senatuh''). anointed heir to the conservative Democrat legions of exiled ex-Governor Allan Shivers. Blakley was appointed by Shivers to warm the senatorial seat between Daniel's departure and the special election that put Yarborough in. After that 103-day stint he did not stand for election-probably on Shivers' orders. Probably at Shivers' request -and surrounded by ex-Shivers speechmakers and advisers-he is running...
Columbia's Allan Nevins, 68, De Witt Clinton Professor of American History and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of President Grover Cleveland and U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. A stumpy, explosively energetic man who impatiently brushes away his age and anything else that interferes with his 6:30 a.m.-to-11:15 p.m. workday, he has written some 25 volumes, edited a dozen others. Historian Nevins was an editorial writer on the New York World and other papers until 1931, joined Columbia's staff as a full professor that year. but never found time...
...Monday evening at 8:30 p.m., a group of Cambridge musicians will perform contemporary American chamber music. The first performance of Allan Sapp's Sonata No. 4 for Piano will be the featured work of this Sanders Theatre concert...
...King Leopold III, who was forced by Socialist pressure to abdicate seven years ago, nobly accepted tutoring in the use of an American-style voting machine at the Brussels Fair from U.S. Pavilion Guide Beverly Ann Bailey. After the lesson, Leopold thoughtfully selected Lincoln as favorite statesman, Edgar Allan Poe as favorite author, Louis Armstrong as favorite musician. Poll completed, he issued a safe royal comment: "Very interesting...
...Poet George Faludi confessed to the Russians that he had been recruited as an American spy by General Edgar Allan Poe, Colonel Walt Whitman and Captain Henry Thoreau. Thrown into solitary, he composed a whole sequence of poems in his mind. Later he smuggled these poems out of prison by having released prisoners memorize twelve lines at a time and then recite them on a visit to his wife...