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...reporter in Asia since 1958, Lederer has made it his job to get what he calls "the real facts" about the conditions in Asian countries. A copious note-taker, he follows one uncompromising principle: the truth can only be found by talking to the rank-and-file people of a country...
...Secrets. How did they do it? "I just do the work until it's done," says Berkeley's Wooley. Daisy Hilse found no short cuts, employed no secrets. She took copious notes in her lectures, concentrated only on "doing well." She studied hard, but never past midnight, because "I get too tired." Her string of A's actually worried her, since "grade-grubbing is not a particularly healthy attitude toward education." She con fesses that she "might have been relieved if I had gotten...
...Evian-les-Bains that July covering the conference for Prager Tagblatt, a German-language newspaper published in Prague. He knew Professor Neumann, Hitler's conscripted auctioneer, and as the meeting progressed to its apathetic conclusion-the offer refused, nothing whatsoever done about the Jews-Habe took copious notes on the proceedings and his long private sessions with the doctor. On that foundation, Habe, now 55, has built what he calls a documentary novel: the story of humanity's failure at Evian-les-Bains...
...they were not Hemingway's most creative years. Yet he was busy and active. He and Hotch went fishing off Cuba, journeyed to Paris and Spain, toured the bullfight circuit and ran with the bulls in Pamplona, hunted together in Ketchum, Idaho. All the time, Hotch was taking copious notes on his unique, complicated and often buffoonish friend...
...books about Kennedy, I doubt if anyone has expressed a nation's feelings as well as Euripides in Hippolytus. "On all our citizens hath come this universal sorrow, unforeseen. Now shall the copious tear gush forth, for sad news about great men takes more than usual hold upon the heart...