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...evening would have been an unqualified success. But Walker often seemed to substitute rapidity for a clear sense of form. As a result, runs were frequently a struggle for the weakest members of the band, and dynamic levels tended to lack control, particularly in the two fanfares of Clifton Williams (1956) and Alexander Tcherepnin...
...wider implications about how the Times is run and by whom. The paper has more editorial direction than most of the nation's dailies. Even so, it often appears to be a kind of symposium of independent correspondents. The Times's trio of top editors-Turner Catledge, Clifton Daniel and A. M. Rosenthal-have long wanted to assert more authority and central purpose, notably in regard to the Washington bureau...
...Died. Clifton C. Williams Jr., 35, U.S. astronaut in training for the Apollo moon program; when his T-38 jet trainer crashed, possibly because of an oxygen failure; near Miccosukee, Fla., thus bringing to eight the number of astronaut fatalities since the program began in 1959, four in T-38 crashes...
...Dummies of the Times's entry, dated Oct. 1, show a standard-size page comprising only six columns. As yet unnamed, the new paper is the result of brain-trusting by a twelve-man committee of Timesmen headed by Assistant Managing Editor A. M. Rosenthal. Managing Editor Clifton Daniel stressed that the Times as yet has made no decision to publish. "This is an experiment to see what type of afternoon paper it might be if we go ahead. It is an effort to conceptualize...
...Syndicate's opportunism is best demonstrated by its de facto leader, F. Clifton White. White, according to reporter Fredirck S. Groshen's Old Friends, has stated that he has been "the official or unofficial campaign manager for Young Republican national chairman from 1949 through 1957." White is a former government professor at Cornell and currently a lawyer and public relations expert in New York. His philosophy is to control the national party by the only means possible--by nominating a candidate for President...