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Wyman follows with an essay on the West Coast anti-academics (the Beat and breathless generation)--a hand-dangling series of observations on San Francisco press agentry. Wyman, and a good many of Audience's poets, seem mildly awed at the energy of the Beat mystique--and profoundly amused by jazz-and-poetry miscegenation and technological bogeymen...
...breathless week, Ellender was only a neolithic holdout. Fired by Texan Johnson as he rocketed to stake a claim in space for the U.S. Congress and its Democratic majority, the members focused on space with the sense of urgency usually reserved for crop supports and rivers and harbors bills. Example: Johnson and a fellow Democrat, New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, were scanning the House bill that would give Defense Secretary McElroy authority for his Advanced Research Projects Agency. They decided that McElroy's franchise would be too broad. At Johnson's urging, Senate conferees, meeting with...
...POLE!" shrieked a headline in London's Daily Mail (circ. 2,138-510), and below it, in the hoary old tradition of British I-witness journalism, ran Correspondent Noel Barber's breathless dispatch: "I have reached the South Pole. I am the sixth Briton in history to do so, the first for 45 years since Scott's party of five reached here in 1912, only to perish on the return journey...
...friend, Franklin Roosevelt, who once showed his affection for Reporter Reynolds by sending his wife two dozen roses on the birth of their first child. Tom Reynolds went to work for Field's still-to-rise Sun as White House correspondent in 1941, scored many newsbeats of the breathless brand that delighted his publisher. Example: eleven days after Newsman Reynolds reported for the Sun that eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs had been seized by the FBI in 1942,* the Chicago Tribune carried a story that added no new details of their capture. In 1949, one year after...
...years, shy little Sir Ernest Oppenheimer left aides breathless as he raced down into South Africa's mines or whisked surefootedly around the crags of high finance. "There's a special place in hell," he said impatiently, "for mining men who don't work with the deposits the good Lord has given them." Last week, a few minutes after joking with his son Harry, his doctor and his private secretary, Sir Ernest slumped over at the breakfast table with a heart attack. At 77, the "king of diamonds" was dead...