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With Husband Richard Kollmar in tow -he is a restaurateur, Broadway producer and "discoverer of new talent"-Kilgallen perched on Wallace's couch and primly soaked up the flattery. She calls her husband Chopsy and he calls her Lambsy, she revealed. "We don't have separate bedrooms," she said. "We do have separate bathrooms-after all." He said he would like her to give up What's My Line?, her New York Journal-American column, and all that jazz and write "The Great American Novel." In her closet there are 138 pairs of shoes. Why? "You have...
...University of California, says little that Otto Feinstein didn't say better in the previous issue. Mills discusses the oft-made point that contemporary student protests are moral rather than political. He reasons that the student regards himself as a political "out," and is thus forced to couch his comment in a radical, demonstrative yet non-political way. Presumptuously though, Mills assumes that the liberal segments of society will probably be responsive when the students (through a freedom ride, a peace march, an anti-HUAC demonstration) make their grievances clear...
Like Noah. Most of the push behind industrial mobilization has been supplied by Virgil Couch. From his cluttered office in Battle Creek (soon to be transferred to Washington. D.C.), Couch has worked for the past ten years to coax big business into the civil defense program. The son of a Purchase. Ky., railroadman. Couch won prizes as a youngster for his wheat crops by carefully sifting the kernels through a fine sieve, so that only the plumpest grains remained. His efforts in industrial civil defense have been equally meticulous. One of his favorite maxims: "You've got to arrive...
...Couch has been with civil defense since its very beginnings. In January 1951, when the Federal Civil Defense Administration was first organized. Jerry Wadsworth, then acting head of the new agency (later Henry Cabot Lodge's chief deputy at the U.N.), offered him a job as deputy assistant administrator in charge of management. Later. Couch became executive officer of the training division, established most of the schools now in existence. One of his early works was a "rescue street" at the Olney, Md., school, where periodic "bombings" made a shambles of the buildings, and civilian students were trained...
...wooing the hard-nosed business community to a strange-and expensive -new cause was not easy, and Virg Couch decided that the best method to convince business leaders was in personal confrontation. He took to the road, speaking at Rotary Clubs, conventions, board meetings-any gathering of businessmen that would tolerate him. He still spends half his life traveling and lobbying. At a recent meeting of the American Society for Industrial Security, Couch was introduced as a man who "has not remained aloof in an ivory tower or vacuum as some Government officials are inclined to do ... Because of this...