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...Boyish-looking Richard J. Davis, 27, headed the probe of the efforts of Donald H. Segretti and others to sabotage Democratic presidential campaigners. Davis has also helped with the investigation of ITT. He graduated with the highest average in his class at Columbia Law School, served as clerk to Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein in New York and specialized in corruption investigations as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York for a year...
...then they turn to Frank, who stands poised for action beside the cash register. Short and slight with a round, boyish face, he flashes a timid smile at a student whose face he recognizes from a previous evening. Beads of sweat along Frank's forehead glisten in the fluorescent light from the price board above him. He lightly touches the forehead that is growing at the expense of his receding hairline. "Very good. Mushroom pizza, for here or go?" he asks in a quiet, heavily accented voice...
McGuane is of course a writer, full time, serious and solvent. The daydreams of alternate occupations are part of his openly boyish nature. He has just discovered mortality, for instance. Didn't know it was there before. "I'm like a kid with a strangely ugly new toy. I used to think writers who bore in on it were morbid. Now I think of certain people dying-my wife, my dog, my friends-and it's perfectly unbearable...
...Dean, 34, spoke in a lifeless monotone that would long be remembered by TV audiences. There were just enough unexpected angles and lines in his face, including a slightly crooked grin, to rescue it from mediocrity. Thanks to a pair of glasses, he looked more owlish than his earlier, boyish pictures had suggested. With impressive poise and a masterly memory, Dean spun his detailed web of evidence. He readily admitted his own illegal and improper acts. But he emerged unshaken from five full days of recital and crossexamination, with his basic story challenged but intact...
Erdman, who grew up in the Midwest, exudes a boyish enthusiasm. He seems to be an irrepressible doer. Be fore leaving jail, he had not only writ ten the novel but revamped the prison library system and persuaded the war den to paint the cells in cheerful col ors. His own accommodations were not unpleasant. He had television, radio, all the books he wanted - and a typewriter...