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...commercialism in the '70s. But the author's unwritten motto is always Multum in parvo (much in little). He avoids issues like integration and Viet Nam; the sharpest attacks concern mistakes that are less global than verbal. When the Reader's Digest changes one of his sentences, for example, he fires off a note to the publisher announcing that, unlike the vanilla bean, White does not wish to be extracted...
First for lunch--you have to have something in your system after all--an hour to digest and get psyched and then the walk to Dillon...
...Baggott always just happens to be around (make that in the right place at the right time, you cliche-lovers) is really no great mystery. "I'm a real snake," Baggott said yesterday afternoon while trying to digest an incredibly Winthrop non-lunch of toasted--not grilled--cheese and tomato. Or, in the words of defensive line coach George Clemens, "the fact that Bob is always in on the action should say something about him. He has great quickness in his legs, and he wastes little motion or effort. When he's knocked out of position, he always makes...
...approach is supposedly modeled on the London Times, but it looks rather like the Philadelphia Inquirer. The designer introduced a new style logotype for items like the front page News Digest, Weather, and Good News items, as well as for the various columns. They are in the form of thin white lettering on a black capsule shaped background. Despite the new look, the overall appearance of the paper is still somehow darker and bolder than the almostly sedately gray Globe...
...first issue (a preliminary trial issue appeared in September). The articles range from "Supermarket Management" ("You don't have to be a superwoman to be a supermarket manager, but it may help."), to "Wages for Housewives" which, in a comment one would only expect to find in Readers' Digest or Life Magazine, exclaims incredulously, "Some folks are beginning to suggest that women who stay at home and clean and cook and shop...should be considered 'working people...