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His square name is Francis Morgan Thompson. "Daley" is a corruption of Ayodele, an African endearment bestowed by his Nigerian father and mispronounced by his Scottish mother. It means "joy enters the house." "That was the only thing," in Thompson's bittersweet estimation, "that they got absolutely right." His London...
Cus D'Amato, the manager who stood up to the fight mob in the '50s, who defied the murderous Frankie Carbo and helped break the monopolist Jim Norris, died in 1985 at 77 and left Tyson in his will. "More than me or Patterson," says D'Amato's other old...
For her twelfth novel, British Author and Playwright Fay Weldon has taken a giddy leap back to the fiction style of the 19th century. Enough of angst and ambiguity, of literary experiment. Bring on Trollope's nudging narrator and Dickens' moral confidence. The Hearts and Lives of Men -- surely a...
With apologies to Charles Dickens this year's Harvard basketball season has been a tale of two teams.
TOM Wolfe is at his best as a writer whose task is to capture the sounds and superficial preoccupations of today's New York. In The Bonfire of the Vanities, he sets out to chronicle The City in its multi-colored glory; Wolfe's book has the novelistic ambition of...