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Newsmen on the move: > Emmet John Hughes, 41, is quitting as policy adviser to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, will become columnist for Newsweek. A former TIME chief of correspondents, Hughes turned behind-scenes political strategist and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, shifted to Rockefeller in 1960. But in such work, he says, he missed the pleasure of speaking his own mind. He has already written America the Vincible, a turgid criticism of Eisenhower's foreign policy; now he is prepared to take another public swipe at his old boss with a new book, Eisenhower: A Political Memoir, to be published next spring. In an excerpt in the current issue of Look, Ike emerges as a testy and shallow ex-general, contemptuous of Adlai Stevenson ("that monkey"), dubious of Richard Nixon ("I just haven't honestly been able to believe that he is presidential timber"). Not surprisingly, Hughes is also leaving his former publishers. Doubleday & Co., who happen to be bringing out Eisenhower's memoirs. The new Hughes book will be published by Atheneum Press.

>> Ben Hibbs, 61, longtime editor of Curtis Publishing Co.'s Saturday Evening Post, and Kenneth Stuart, 57, the Post's longtime art editor, are moving to the Reader's Digest: Hibbs as a senior editor, Stuart as art director. The shifts are late echoes of Curtis' serious and continuing financial troubles. Last week, Curtis announced the loss of $15,481,641 for the first nine months of the year.

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