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...White House publicly rejected the message from San Antonio. Faith Ryan Whittlesey, Assistant to the President for public liaison, said the N.W.P.C. is "clearly not in the American mainstream." Whittlesey argued that the Administration's gains on the economy are especially beneficial to women. She wondered, not without reason, "why the Democrats are not holding meetings to find out why they are losing male voters." However, White House sources admit that women's issues have become a matter of high-level concern. Responsibility for dealing with the gender gap has been turned over to Deputy Chief of Staff...
...emphasized that individuals vehemently opposed to the current formats of the university film societies may join one of the societies at any time. They are all open organizations--may they remain so. Paul Whittlesey President, Currier Film Society Hester Fuller
...sales to date: 10 million copies, an alltime record for U.S. fiction. In 1945, a Random House editor read A Lion Is in the Streets, by Adria Langley. He rejected it, reporting that "40 pages of this magnolia-laden junk was all I could stand." Lion, published later by Whittlesey House, sold 250,000 copies. A more recent example is the history of Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, a shotgun attack on the Warren Commission. "We commissioned him to write it," says Publisher Barney Rosset of Grove Press, which is known chiefly for its back list...
MISS ESTA MAUDE'S SECRET (story and pictures by W. T. Cummings; Whittlesey House; $3.25) is as American as Our Town. Esta Maude Hay is a spinster schoolteacher who lives in a rickety house on the edge of town, with two cats, a goldfish and a parrot. She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine." But Esta Maude has a flaming secret vice, a racy, sin-red sports car that she drives like the wind of a Friday midnight. Author-Illustrator Cummings manages to be folksy, foxy...
With the death of Professor Derwent Whittlesey in 1956, the once-flourishing program of geographical studies at the University ended completely. The Geographical Institute stood empty for two years until it was finally taken over by the Department of Mathematics, another symbol of the demise of geographical studies...