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...matter how far Agee's imagination ranged, he always seemed drawn to the central image of a country road and a wheel spinning and a dapper man stretched out serenely under the stars. It became the obsessive theme of A Death in the Family, his autobiographical novel. After Agee died of a heart attack in 1955 at the age of 45, that work won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1958, and as adapted under the title All the Way Home in 1960, a second Pulitzer in the theater. That same year, Let Us Now Praise Famous...
Such were the bizarre twists and turns of the notorious Hiss-Chambers case. In the decades since the case dominated the headlines, the facts have all but disappeared under the symbolic baggage piled on them. For liberals, the dapper, Harvard-educated Hiss-who left the State Department in 1947 and became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace-epitomized the best and brightest of Roosevelt's New Dealers. The accusations against him seemed an indictment of a whole political era, as well as a harbinger of McCarthyite anti-Red hysteria. For conservatives (among them President Reagan, who awarded...
...dapper, polished Gray, 62, is the founder and president of Gray & Co., an 86-member lobbying and public relations firm located in a lavishly decorated former generating plant in Georgetown immodestly named the Power House. His office is decorated with photographs of him shaking hands with every President since Dwight Eisenhower. "With appreciation and warmest friendship," says a photo inscription from Ronald Reagan, whose Inauguration ceremonies Gray helped arrange. By day he likes to be seen with his pals in high places, including CIA Director William Casey, Senator Paul Laxalt and most of the Cabinet. By night, if his friends...
...outskirts of Canton, the ballads of Country Singer Kenny Rogers boom across a small store where four youngsters are huddled over a Space Invaders screen. In the streets of Peking, long-haired young men in dapper trenchcoats walk arm in arm with girlfriends in high heels. Near by, in neon-lit consumer emporiums, grizzled countryfolk peel off huge sheaves of banknotes to buy TV sets to take back to their villages. The Jianguo Hotel is a replica of the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto, Calif. Not far away, Maxim's de Pékin serves haute cuisine at $70 a head...
...courses and night school. Romanov eventually became leader of the Leningrad party organization and was promoted to full membership in the Politburo when he was only 53. In June 1983 he was brought to Moscow to assume a post on the Secretariat, strengthening his position as a contender. Looking dapper and self-assured with every strand of his silver hair in place, Romanov delivered the main address at the Kremlin gathering five months later to mark the 66th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution...