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...cold morning when the toast burns and the child is crying. For centuries, men have told their wives that such problems were not very important, but the novelty is to be patronized by other women for "not doing anything really." Kathy Mertz, who enjoyed serving as a Cub Scout den mother in North Barrington, Ill., particularly resented a newly emancipated part-time secretary who periodically called on her to act as chauffeur for her child. Says Mertz: "She kept telling me that I ought to be 'doing something worthwhile'! What I was doing was giving her child care...
Ernie Banks has not been heard from much since he retired as an active player with the Chicago Cubs in 1971. The shortstop-first baseman, who hit 512 home runs in his 19 seasons with the team, has worked as a coach at Wrigley Field and as a roving instructor for the Cubs' farm system. But he never lost the sunny disposition that made him one of the best-loved players in baseball. "It's a beautiful day for a ball game," he would often say. "Let's play two." If a doubleheader was scheduled, he would...
Sometimes when Emerson approached Americans whose husbands or sons had died in the war, she discovered what every cub police reporter finds -the survivors' numbness, an element of blank, nothing much to say. All of the Viet Nam decade, of course, was filled with grotesqueries, wild ricochets of irony. Emerson recalls the case of a poetic 22-year-old private whose job it was to compose elaborate-and totally fictitious-battle citations for senior officers who wished to leave Viet Nam with a Silver Star. The secretary of a local draft board in Gordonsville. Tenn. tells Emerson: "Five died...
...hurricane that would more than solve his cub reporter's problem arrived without prehistory: no forecast, no cute nickname. Resurrecting names and places from old clippings, conducting new interviews with survivors, Allen has, in effect, retracked the storm. There is the occasionally odd and saving incident. In New Jersey, 60 colonies of beavers manned their dams in Palisades Park and, in the process of saving themselves, kept down the flooding of 42,000 acres of nearby land and highways. But mostly Allen's story is a sequence of unremitting havoc...
Says Magnuson, now deep into his fourth presidential race: "It's eerie how the faces reappear. I met Fritz Mondale when I was a cub at the Tribune, and he was managing the losing campaign of a guy running for mayor of Minneapolis. Shows you how far a man can go in politics." Shows you how far you can go in journalism...