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Lowell was offering up the current intellectuals' line on Mailer, and Norman was mouthing the perennial Mailer line on himself ("Me Mailer. Me champ"). But The Armies of the Night suggests that Lowell is wrong, and that Mailer may be closer to the truth. He is a rather lazy and often sloppy journalist, but he can still write like a streak. Whether that makes him the best writer in America is open to question, but this book, which Mailer labels "History as a Novel" and "The Novel as History," is a bravura performance...
Smooth-striding Jim Baker ran a record-setting 4:02.2 mile and a 1:50.2 half mile to lead the Crimson track team past Princeton 104 to 50 Saturday at Soldier's Field. Baker whipped Princeton's two top runners--NCAA scorer Alan Andreini in the mile and Heptagonal champ Jack Endrikat in the half mile...
Lacrosse has been around for at least 200 years, and intercollegiate lacrosse began over 90 years ago, And unlike the present time when lax champion teams come from either New York or Maryland, the first recognized college champ was, believe it or not sports fans, Harvard...
...CHICAGO--The White Sox have always had the best pitching in the American League; their problem has always been hitting. But two winter deals may have solved everything. From the Mets, Eddie Stanky's boys got two-time N.L. batting champ, Tommy Davis, and from Baltimore came shortstop Louis Aparicio. If Pete Ward and Duane Josephson have big years at the plate, and if Comiskey Park is still standing after the summer, then Chicago will...
...Essay "The Dollar Is Not as Bad as Gold" (Jan. 12), said that President and Congress would soon remove the 25% gold cover for U.S. currency - and it happened two months later. This week's cover story, written by Gurney Breckenfeld, researched by Kathleen Cooil and edited by Champ Clark, not only tells what is going on but also looks into the future at what might happen in the months and years to come...