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...year later he was living with her in London, and he looked to her father and brother, Lee and John, fashionable, tough-minded New York show-business lawyers, for advice on Apple's chaotic affairs. Lennon, in the meantime, had met up with Allen Klein, a free-swinging wheeler-dealer who once sent out Christmas cards with this greeting: "Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because I'm the biggest bastard in the valley...
Even in isolation, Hughes devised methods that made him highly effective as a wheeler and dealer. His deteriorating health was, of course, a handicap, but at times when he felt strong, his mind was sharp and clear. Until as late as 1972, he retained the overall control of his empire by poring over his companies' performance reports, peppering aides with memos and reading a wide selection of the nation's press. He orchestrated the activities of his aides down to the last detail and closely supervised their business transactions...
...first revival of Booth Tarkington's Clarence since it opened with Alfred Lunt in the title role in 1919 is a class-conscious comedy and a delight to behold. The hero, Clarence )Stephen Keep), is a mysterious World War I veteran who applies to the Wheeler family for a job. The Wheelers-stuffy father, silly mother, bratty daughter, son thrown out of Princeton-take him on and find him a paragon of piano tuning, plumbing and wistfully disarming charm. Keep is a perfect stand-in for a young Jimmy Stewart. As Clarence, he woos and wins the governess (Marian...
Died. General Earle G. Wheeler, 67, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1964 to 1970; of heart disease; in Frederick, Md. Wheeler in 1960 so impressed Candidate John Kennedy with his military briefings, that J.F.K. appointed him Army Chief of Staff. In 1964, President Johnson raised Wheeler to the military's highest post. As Chairman of the J.C.s, Wheeler helped plan and administer the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam and was one of the key figures involved in devising cover stories to conceal President Nixon's orders for the secret bombing of Cambodia...
Emphasizing that the journals are still the property of the library, Wheeler said they are "probably fairly important" and will be put on microfilm if they are not already...