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...background in politics but with a prized Washington asset: connections. Her mother Marcia Lewis, an author and socialite, lives at the Watergate (not far from the Doles, Lewis liked to tell associates); more important, Monica's mother knew Walter Kaye, a retired New York City insurance magnate and generous contributor to the Democratic Party. Kaye recommended Monica for a summer internship at the White House, a job she probably would not otherwise have landed. Monica "was excited about it," says a close college friend. "She enjoys hobnobbing." Especially with the famous and powerful. It was a trait that...
...later, Bott became a graduate student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He received a Ph.D in mathematics two years later in 1949, and fell in love with the field of topology after a stint at Princeton as a postdoctorate student. Bott has since become a prominent contributor in the field...
...most wonderfully named of all old cameras, the Speed Graphic, he chased down the city at its most scabrous, a place where the chief pastimes were groping and bloodletting and where the main thing to remember was that only the strong survive. Eventually he was also a contributor to the liberal daily PM, which put him in the company of literary tough customers like Dorothy Parker and Dashiell Hammett and which reproduced Weegee's prints in a way that did justice to their tar-pit blacks...
Miller, who has been a solid contributor over the past two years, has raised her level of play in the last few weeks. She is shooting a torrid 65 percent from the floor since December 20, and she earned a spot on the Ivy League's Honor Roll this week...
...Legends of the American Desert (Knopf) Alex Shoumatoff, a New Yorker contributor, spent 25 years researching and writing this book about the U.S. Southwest. The result is a sometimes bewildering but continually fascinating profusion of stories and themes. Shoumatoff writes knowingly and affectionately about indigenous Indians and those who came later. The scenery is spectacular, and there is nothing dry or dusty in this desert...