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...individualism, and many freelancers approach getting published less as a job than as a spiritual quest. But last week a fledgling National Writers Union framed a constitution and elected officers from among 1,500 dues-paying members, including Novelist Kurt Vonnegut and Journalist Studs Terkel. Said President Andrea Eagan, a feminist writer: "Without top names we would be like a baseball union without Reggie Jackson...
...peace (see ESSAY). While Reagan's proposal was hailed by Europe's leaders, the reaction of the peace groups was ambivalent. They took credit for forcing the President to act, but claimed he had not gone far enough, and made it clear that they would continue their campaign. eagan displayed an actor's exquisite sense of timing as he finally decided to step out on the foreign policy stage. Last weekend Brezhnev was due in Bonn for a four-day visit with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who, of all the NATO leaders, has most directly staked his future on the missile...
Mary Lynch of Eagan, Minn., used to have a pet white rabbit. Her neighbor, Tim Wilson, used to have a pet black cat. One day Cootus the cat crept out, confronted the rabbit, and, according to Lynch, the bunny died of fright. Lynch called the animal warden, and the cat was soon incarcerated at the local police station, where it hissed at its captors. Three hours after catching the cat, the cops carried it off to a firing range and dispatched it with a shotgun...
...than any other game in the sports-mad land. Thus when some upstart Yanks recently challenged the vaunted British there was open scorn in London pubs. "It's like snooker," sniffed one expert. "You figure that the best in Britain are the best in the world." Mrs. Jacqueline Eagan, 44, one of three American team members who survived an elimination tournament among 5,000 of the U.S.'s top tossers, figured differently: "We expect to beat the British at their own game...
Died. Eddie Eagan, 69, the only U.S. athlete ever to win a gold medal in both summer and winter Olympics (as a light-heavyweight boxer in 1920 and a bobsledder in 1932), a dedicated lawyer and sportsman but easygoing administrator, who as head of the New York State Athletic Commission from 1945 to 1951 came under mounting attack for his irresolute manner in dealing with pro boxing scandals, and finally resigned; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...