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From Rugby to Royalties. Moral Re-Armer Howard could hardly be more unlike Buchman, who was a mild-mannered rural pastor and Y.M.C.A. worker until he founded the Oxford Group. M.R.A.'s predecessor. Lean, trim and handsome at 56, Howard was in his day one of Oxford's athletic greats, eight times a star on Britain's international rugby team. In 1941, as the best-known and most biting political columnist in Lord Beaverbrook's stable, he was assigned to write some pieces about M.R.A. and ended up joining it. He owns and operates a model...
...Though he is favored, two-term Democrat Stuart Symington, 63, is running hard. He has Son Jimmy, a folk singer, strumming his banjo and playing things like Cornbread 'Lasses and Sassafras Tea in rural areas. Republican Jean Paul Bradshaw, 58, an Ozark Air Lines vice president, figures to trim Symington's 1958 plurality of 386,236, but not by enough...
Spelled Backward. In his campaign for Governor, Rockefeller has spared neither himself nor his pocketbook. Overweight for years, he lost 40 lbs. before he began to run, is now a trim 6 ft. 3 in., 205 lbs. He owns four airplanes, one of them a jet, and each day he takes off from his personal airport at Winrock bound for a campaign destination. When he arrives, a just-plain-folks secondhand bus, driven there the night before, is waiting to carry him over back roads to tiny hamlets and home towns. The Rockefeller bus is plastered with "Win with...
...generations on end, the Greeks have gone into shipping as their natural calling, reassured by an ancient Hellenic proverb that the sea never freezes. Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 55, a trim, dapper Greek and a former brother-in-law of Magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis, has carried on the tradition with flair and fabulous success, now owns a fleet of 74 tankers and freighters whose stacks bear the white "N" known in every port. But Niarchos, who became the world's largest independent shipowner, is ready to change course. Last week the word was out that his whole fleet...
There are even a few "tape-recorder youth," so named because they secretly tape Western jazz and popular music unavailable in Bulgaria. They affect trim Ivy League suits, drink "worker's brandy" (cheap, sweet vermouth), read such Western authors as Hemingway and J. D. Salinger, and furtively swap anti-regime jokes-despite the fact that Bulgaria alone among the European satellites still jails such jokers...