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...John M. Scott, 33, a native of Vancouver, who was a reporter for the Sherbrooke (Quebec) Daily Record and the Montreal Gazette, and wrote for TIME in New York for five years before he took over as Canada editor. Scott is at present the homebody of an all-Canadian clan: he found time last week to send reports on the election results to his father, Princeton Professor R.B.Y. Scott, former dean of McGill University's Faculty of Divinity, who has been doing Bible study in Jordan, and to his brother Gavin, TIME'S Buenos Aires bureau chief...
...corresponding to that in which the typical Air Force officer finds himself. The combined experience of drill and staff work is intended to produce an officer who as a subordinate will follow orders promptly and efficiently and who as a superior will issue them with proper forethought, timing and clan...
...Halpern clan is a family of cartoon monsters. Vulgar, egomaniacal Mama (Ruth Gordon) is a compulsive shopper with delusions of solvency. Masochistic Papa (Walter Matthau) is a corner-cutting shoe manufacturer who is going bankrupt in a paroxysm of anguish and gallows humor. Son Bernie (Anthony Holland) is a leaky, self-expressing drip, the kind that leaves a brown stain in a washbowl. At play's end, simple-witted Bernie is out in the once pristine West shilling with a tom-tom for some once noble Indians who are now corrupt enough to con the tourists with their fabricated...
Descended from a long line of weavers who set up looms in Valdagno nearly 200 years ago, the clan is headed by hardheaded, domineering Count Gaetano Marzotto, 68, who added hotels to his business after being bitten by marauding bedbugs during a stop in a hotel in Southern Italy. Made a noble in 1930 by King Victor Emmanuel chiefly for his exemplary treatment of his workers, Count Gaetano has five sons to carry on his title and the family business: Vittorio Emanuele, 40, a Liberal Deputy; Umberto, 36, who runs the farms; Paolo, 32, a sales executive with the retail...
...handle barbecued chicken. Though contemporary society neither needs nor would accept such an absolute authority as Emily Post, it does welcome some guidelines, and since Mrs. Post died two years ago, the unquestioned chief guider has been Amy Vanderbilt, 54, an energetic latter-day member of the genuine Vanderbilt clan...