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...even one-half as hard as Goldwater did, or even one-half as hard as Rockefeller did, Nixon would be in the White House today." Declares Nevada's Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt: "We don't want a guy who is going to sit on his big fat duff like he did in 1960." Says one of Nixon's top 1960 aides, a Californian: "I don't know any politician anywhere who worked in the 1960 campaign who isn't bitter about Lodge...
...Francis J. Connell, former dean of the School of Sacred Theology at Catholic University, said that the article was "absolutely contrary to the teaching of the church in this area." In a rebuttal of Janssens' thesis that was printed by many diocesan papers, Jesuit Father Edward Duff wrote that "no established Catholic theologian is on record as agreeing with...
Honor Tracy, who has written the classic of modern Irish farce (her wonderfully vicarish novel, The Straight and Narrow Path), unaccountably neglects this rule in The First Day of Friday. Good Intentions is there all right (young Michael Duff, the impoverished Protestant squire who wants only to marry his Dulcie and persuade his servant Atracta to cook breakfast on time). So are Sedition and Salvation (respectively Atracta, the mindless mother of fatherless triplets, and her confessor, the insane but otherwise reasonable Father Behan). There is, furthermore, the besotted yardman Tomo who leads a bull into Michael Duff's kitchen...
...eyes for their fetching daughter Victoria Kelly, 17, were Deb-of-the-Century Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 42 (now Mrs. Robert Chatfield-Taylor), and First Husband John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 53. When the proud parents powwowed at their old Stork Club stamping ground, both agreed there will be none of that coming-out foolishness for Victoria. "Too many people see the debut as a goal," declares Brenda, "but perspective is more important. I want my daughter to have a full life." Recently ill, the former Glamour Girl admits that her own perspective was improved by two years of psychoanalysis...
Navy is expected to go with Bruce Terwilliger, supposedly its ace, but Coach Joe Duff could also present Tim Myers on the mound. Last year Myers was the only man with any luck against the Crimson's heavy plate artillery, holding Harvard scoreless for six and a third innings...