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...Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion that he was enjoying the hell out of the whole show. Then he'd weigh anchor and take everybody over to South Africa to watch the natives yank a few more million out of his diamond mines. A real character, that Daddy Warbucks. Too bad he wasn't real...
...difficult to imagine a more complete collection of a man's work and life than the quantity of material Yardley, a 1968-69 Nieman Fellow, compiled in Ring. He begins the book with the essence of Lardner's world, Frank Chance's baseball diamond, and traces his writing career to its sad, unfulfilled end. Baseball, to Lardner, was an American institution. He loved the players, and revered them as heroes the way most of America did--but Lardner's coverage of the White Sox for the Chicago Tribune was much more than sports-writing. The spectators held just as much...
...been generally considered one of the few universities that refused to comply with the efforts of the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) to rout Communists from institutions of higher learning. But this summer, the New York Review of Books followed the charges by Columbia sociologist Sigmund Diamond that Harvard fired him because he was a communist--which the magazine printed this spring--with similar charges by University of California sociologist Robert N. Bellah...
After them among the daughters of utterly respectable Lord and Lady Redesdale came Jessica Mitford, known to her family as Decca, who scratched hammers and sickles on the windowpanes of her stately home with her diamond ring before running off to the Spanish Civil War at the age of 19 with a nephew of Sir Winston Churchill's. In A Fine Old Conflict, a sequel to her earlier memoir, Daughters and Rebels, Decca promises to explain why she in particular and Mitford sisters in general have behaved so-well, Mitfordly...
...farm. The President angled for catfish, had breakfast with Miss Lillian in her pond house and inspected peanut, corn and watermelon fields. To while away the steamy Georgia afternoon, he invited the army of reporters camping out in Americus to come over and "bat some balls" on the Plains diamond. Brother Billy Carter, wearing a sports shirt emblazoned BELLY FLOP AND CANNON BALL DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS, disloyally took the mound for the "Newsies." His brother, decked out in faded cutoffs, lobbed a steady underhand pitch (no spin) for the White House players, the "Jimmy's." When the Newsies...