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...much an office chairman. "I'm not going to waste my time making speeches," he says. "There's a million guys who can make a better speech than I can." He normally spends his working day, from 10 a.m. to about 1 a.m., seated in a red leather chair behind a big desk in the party headquarters in Columbus. At night, when the office is quiet, he pulls sheaves of public opinion surveys out of a desk drawer and pores over them, calculating percentages and searching for patterns and trends...
...Vermont Tweed Shop (next to the Brattle Theater) has an extremely impressive array of kilts at $29.95 in sizes 6-16. Imported from Scotland, they sport leather buckle closings on the side and are street length, unlike the "knee ticklers" so popular with the circle pin set this season. The collection includes about fifty authentic tartans, and for plaid-identifying enthusiasts, there is a copy of The Clans and Tartans of Scotland handy for reference...
...oldest and most unusual throwaway publication in the U.S. Most throwaways are just what the name implies, but surveys have shown that 89% of Broadway theatergoers take their Playbills home -and some 5,000 of them, including two customers in India and one in New Zealand, buy leather binders ($2.50 to $5) with which to preserve their copies. Most throwaways are hurled at the largest possible readership. Playbill has been interested only in Broadway theatergoers, of which there...
...idiotic reasons-refused to accept a gift from the fabulously rich (sugar and cement) Boettcher family. All the Boettchers wanted to do was turn over to the state, for use as the Gov ernor's mansion, their dreamland Denver home, with 23 furnished rooms, a magnificent tooled-leather library, a crystal chandelier that once adorned the White House (in the days of President Taft), and a profusion of priceless tapestries. When the Colorado legislators declined the offer, McNichols went right ahead and accepted it-and he is now living in the Boettcher museum. In short, McNichols enjoys...
Speaking in a thick Southern drawl, the 26-year-old attorney described his first meeting with Meredith in January of 1961. "I had just addressed a group at Jackson State College," a Negro institution. "A young man in a black leather jacket and a black leather cap stood up and asked me, 'How do we know you're not a traitor? How do we know you're not paid by the Citizens' Councils?'" The young man was James Meredith...