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Also, the weather was terrible, which shouldn't be a surprise considering that the invitational was in Dartmouth. The temperatures dipped into the 30s on Sunday morning, forcing the golfers to drive while wearing heavy jackets...
...Vietnamese officer saluted and put out his hand. "Captain Vo Cong Hieu, commanding 2nd Battalion," he said in passable English. Hieu was my Army of the Republic of Vietnam (arvn) counterpart, the man I would be advising. He was short, in his early 30s, with a broad face and an engaging smile. But for the uniform, I would have taken him for a genial schoolteacher...
...that changed with the advent last year of HotWired, the sassy online sister of Wired, and later of Pathfinder, Time Warner's mammoth collection of magazines-come-to-the-Net. Advertisers sensed new possibilities. And why not? The typical Internet user is a Madison Avenue parfait: mid-30s, hyper educated, mostly male, and with plenty of disposable income and free time...
...novel's considerable merits. The astonishing truth was that this was West's second time around as fame's darling. She was, in fact, the last surviving member -- ''the Kid," they called her then -- of a group of formidably gifted black writers of the late '20s and early '30s, the period of the Harlem Renaissance. This flare of talent included poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes and novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. While still in her teens, fresh out of Girls' Latin School in Boston, West tied for second with Hurston in a short-story contest. After that...
Curtiz pieces the Cohn-Casson story together from interviews with people who knew her in the '30s. An old Masai spiritual leader tells of his nephew who may have been Claudia's lover. A former British army officer describes his romance with Cohn-Casson and her return to Paris during the final months of World War II. Why would an intelligent, worldly Jew deliberately return to Hitler's Europe? While Curtiz is pursuing the answer in Kenya and Tanzania, Letterman is busy in Paris checking out every aspect of a celebrated French actress. She turns out to be a transsexual...