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...other selected professors were: Oxford College's A.O.J. Cockshut, Brown's Reginald D. Archambault, Yale's Anthony Appiah and John Blum, the University of Pennsylvania's Paul Fussell, and the University of Virginia's Bob Kellogg...
...German rose from the audience, filling the faint empty echo left by the absent Soviets, Hungarians, Poles and Bulgarians. Roars, shouts and groans were punctuated by the supplications, gestures of profound disbelief and uniquely affecting howls of "Aaaoowww!" from the fencers. "The players always assume their roles," explained Robert Blum, a New York lawyer who fenced on two Olympic teams. "As with all sports, fencing is a mode of communication. The fencers are telling us something about themselves." As Mathias Gey of West Germany was eliminated, he sank to his knees, crouched in defeat, while above him Stefano Cerioni...
...Minnesotan was interested enough in Feinstein to dispatch Johnson to San Francisco on July 5. He had a 60-minute talk with Feinstein, probing for anything in her medical history or finances?or those of her husband Richard Blum, a wealthy investor?that might prove troublesome if she were selected. On the following Sunday, the New York Times carried a report, apparently inspired by a Mondale aide who favored Feinstein, that Mondale had been disappointed in Ferraro when the two had talked. Mondale called Ferraro the next day to tell her that the story was untrue. Ferraro did not seem...
...further buoyed that same Sunday when two Mondale staffers, Peter Kyros and Michael Cardoza, arrived at her house and stayed for four hours. They asked questions about her health, children, previous marriages (Feinstein and one husband had divorced; a second had died) and finances. "They messed up my Sunday," Blum complained with mock seriousness. "They wanted to know everything all the way back to kindergarten." On Monday the aides spent 14 hours at Blum's downtown office, scouring financial records. Blum ordered sandwiches sent in so reporters would not spot the Mondale...
Nonetheless, CAN is able to assist only 20% to 30% of all the cancer victims who request trips. Blum hopes eventually to expand the service to include almost all of the 15,700 American corporate aircraft now aloft...