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Dean, as of yesterday, was still working in his office, Mitchell was resting from grand jury testimony earlier this week, and syndicated columnist Jack Anderson was appearing "voluntarily" before Federal investigators, promising to print no more copies of grand jury transcripts which had cast doubt on Mitchell's earlier proclamation of innocence...
There are still a few Jesuits who perpetuate the Walsh syndrome: Father Daniel Lyons, columnist and founder of the right-wing Catholic newspaper Twin Circle, still hammers away at the containment theme. But he now has an articulate group of opponents within the order. Father Aldon Stevenson, who recently returned to his post at the University of San Francisco after a trip into Mao's China, cited the Communist Chinese as exemplary "anonymous Christians" that Western Christians could well emulate. "People are valued above things," says Stevenson, "and neighbors love and help each other. There is hope in abundance...
...mistakes Country Music has made about its audience so far has been to print 5,000 posters of Hee Haw Star (and Country Music humor columnist) Archie Campbell. He is sprawled in the pose made famous by Burt Reynolds in Cosmopolitan and clad in red-and-white-striped long underwear. Of the 5,000 posters printed, Country Music has sold just 37. "We discovered," says McCabe, "that our readers wallpaper their walls. Unlike rock fans, they don't put up posters...
...well as Granny Sara did. Girl and woman, she was a dissembler. She let on that her father was simply a boozer, failing to mention that he also had a brain tumor. To ingratiate herself with the bigoted Sara, she feigned anti-Semitic notions. Much later, as a columnist, she had the nerve to "picture herself as a calm, contented woman," rather than as the "detached, harried, faultfinding wife and parent we knew." To Daughter Anna she was insensitive. Not only that, but Eleanor was poor company on a camping trip...
...strongest assets are his acutely sensitive political antennae, which can detect and analyze the most byzantine political situations, and an iron determination to see Government policy carried out regardless of anyone's hurt feelings. Martin, now 60, first learned his political skills while working as a Washington columnist for a number of newspapers in his native South, and then as an official in Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration. Appointed to the Paris embassy after World War II, he became so adroit in finding and exploiting sources of power that he acquired a nickname that still follows...