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...edict blew up a storm all over Canada. Snapped the Toronto Telegram: "The idea that 'fat teachers aren't good teachers' is absolutely ridiculous. It smacks of sweeping generalization, always a bad habit, and dictates an inseparable link between appearance and intellect that does not exist." Mounting a crusade for Jim Babinetz, the Telegram interviewed Teacher Hilliard Anderson of Humber-crest public school, who happens to weigh 325 Ibs. Said he: "My size commands authority." The rival Toronto Star took a different tack. Since Jim is now eager to shed 60-80 Ibs., the Star hired...
...carried 2,400,344 last year. The number of U.S. dailies using run-of-press color has increased 25% since 1956. Color now appears in more than 800 U.S. dailies. Even small-circulation papers are taking on hue: last year only four papers outranked the Midland, Texas Reporter-Telegram (circ. 17,650) in the use of color advertising...
Teamster president James R. Hoffa has canceled his previously announced Nov. 5 address to the Harvard Law School Forum. In a telegram sent yesterday morning to the Forum, Hoffa said that his "heavy schedule" would not allow him to meet the speaking commitment...
...national convention in San Antonio last week, cheered Texas Governor Price Daniel's charge that LeMay is an enemy of states' rights-"the typical Federal-minded bureaucrat that thinks the Federal Government has to run everything." The association brushed aside Air Force Secretary James Douglas' conciliatory telegram explaining that Le May had intended only to "stimulate dynamic thinking...
...Manhattan TV critics (the World-Telegram's Harriet Van Horne and the Journal-American's Jack O'Brian) headlined their views identically: THE BIG PARTY is A BIG BORE. Fresh out of quiz programs to sponsor, Revlon this year is betting on 15 biweekly CBS variety shows, each to be laboriously dressed up to look like a party thrown by show folk for one another. Host of last week's opening brawl (in a make-believe Waldorf duplex) was Movie Idol Rock Hudson, who a few years ago inspired the title for a comedy called Will...