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Momentarily, the wide side of the field appeared to offer clear sailing for the potential hero. But Crimson linebacker Tom Joyce was equal to the task, corralling the runner nearing the endzone flag and dragging him out of bounds on the two-yard line. Before most spectators could digest what had happened, a jubilant team from Harvard was all over the field celebrating its incredible 17-10 victory...
...mechanics of their success, "You just can't write for what the audience will think...because you're not at the mercy of your audience. You're at the mercy of yourselves." The cutting edge of Comden and Green's satiric genius has always saved them from Readers Digest popularity...
...anti-black and antiSemitic, headed up another. An articulate former New York judge, Robert Morris, 61, now president of the University of Piano in Texas, was the choice of the intellectuals, including William Rusher, publisher of National Review. Richard Viguerie, 42, a direct-mail specialist and publisher of Conservative Digest, was picked as Morris' running mate...
Almost two years after resigning as Watergate Special Prosecutor, Leon Jaworski has finally produced his long-expected account of the anxious, turbulent, year-long investigation that he directed into the worst scandal in American history. His book The Right and The Power (Gulf Publishing Co. and Reader's Digest Press; $9.95) is a straightforward, rather dry rendering, often made even drier by lengthy quotes from legal documents. Jaworski, who is donating the royalties to his own nonprofit foundation (which supports religious and educational projects), nonetheless offers some intriguing anecdotes and pungent observations. Among them...
...where she earned a B.A. in education in 1958, she took no writing courses. "I was intimidated. There were lots of talented people around." Until Ordinary People the only public recognition she had was winning 60th place in a contest of 100 small prizes offered by Writer's Digest for short stories in 1970. Still, she describes herself as a "closet writer" from the age of twelve: "I just didn't talk to anybody about it." She admits to writing "seriously" for six years, has two failed novels still at home, plus a clutter of short stories...