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...Jordan, both the loneliness and the boozy camaraderie are a way of life. Returning to his native Fairfield, Conn., after his career with the Milwaukee Braves fizzled, Jordan supported himself and his wife Carol by teaching at a local girls' school. But he also wrote, and, in 1969, sold his first piece, a short story, to Ingenue. Says he: "It was great. I got a check made out to Miss Pat Jordan...
...plane, and missing his name tag. The air was a brisk 45° F with gusty winds, but his lip was trembling out of fear. Then he spotted his father, Tran Van Duoc, hurrying toward him. They were bused to an assembly center where they met Larry and Carol Bailey, representatives of their American sponsor-the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Belmond (pop. 2,500)-who would help the Duocs resettle...
...their first lunch there went well: "They didn't touch the potatoes, and they looked at the green beans a long time before eating them, but they each had two hamburgers." Donna Knoll, 56, came by with a Vietnamese phrase book to help her new neighbors learn English. Carol Bailey took some of the family out shopping for shoes, and Larry Bailey planned a trip to Fort Dodge to get everybody Social Security numbers. Said Iowa Refugee Service Center Director Colleen Shearer: "Don't people spend their whole lives wanting to show love? This is a rare opportunity...
...Margaret gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl?an instant family that her friends cite as the ultimate in efficiency. Mark went to Harrow and is now the representative of an Australia-based freight company. His sister Carol studied law at London University and has been working in Australia as a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald. She returned to London in time for the last weeks of the campaign...
...proposed that symbiotic linkages between prokaryotic cells were the origin of eukaryotes, and that fusion between different sorts of eukaryotes (e.g., motile, ciliated cells joined to phagocytic ones) . . ." Such is not the stuff that bestsellers are made of, but that is precisely what Thomas' book became. Novelist Joyce Carol Gates found the essays "remarkable . . . undogmatic . . . gently persuasive." John Updike praised Thomas' "shimmering vision." Reviewers picked up the applause; so did more and more readers. The book has now sold over 300,000 copies in hardback and paperback and has been translated into eleven languages. The Lives...