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Wyzanski was also an avid book collector, amassing what former clerk Stephen R. Latham '82 called "a house filled with wall-to-wall books." Associates praised Wyzanski's dedication to legal scholarship, noting that he wrote his own opinions--an increasingly uncommon practice...
...Avid bicyclists enter the Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, better known as "Ragbrai," to enjoy Iowa hospitality, 10 cents lemonade, and the excellent local bratwurst. Babbitt came to peddle himself to Iowa Democrats, whose caucuses are the first major test of the 1988 presidential campaign. The Arizona Governor, whose successes are little known east of the Rocky Mountain states, needs all the early recognition...
Darkly handsome and athletic (he was an avid skier until his doctor finally ordered him to quit in his 70s), Harriman was something of a ladies' man. During World War II, he conducted a famous flirtation with Pamela Churchill, who at the time was married to the son of the Prime Minister; he married her three decades later, after the death of his second wife Marie Norton Whitney...
...schedule for an avid self-educator might be something like this: "The Universe: The Beginning Now and Henceforth," run by George B. Field, Willson Professor of Astronomy, followed by "Women and Work: The Interactive Relationship," with a variety of Radcliffe administrators on Thursday; Friday's tidbits might include "The French Revolution: The Language of Violence," monitored by Franklin L. Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and then "Nuclear Promises and Problems," with Nicholaas Bloembergen, Gerhard Gade University Professor; and finally on Saturday one could finish up with "Biomolecular Processes," with Walter Gilbert, professor of biology and "Challenges...
...real sense of storytelling. I was raised by a mother who read to us every night. I cherish the memory of her voice. In recording Patricia MacLachlan's work, I believe I am keeping alive a good tradition." Updike is both a recorder of his own work and an avid listener to colleagues: "I love to hear authors themselves reading their work. The voice, one presumes, is the voice they are hearing in their heads as they write...