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...soon as Scottoline tried her hand at legal thrillers, she sold her first book, Everywhere That Mary Went,and her career took off. By 1995, she had won the Edgar Award, the top prize for mystery writers, for Final Appeal. As of this year, her books have been translated into 23 languages and more than 7 million copies have been sold...
Oppenheimer became the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, which was famous for hosting Albert Einstein, but he still faced the wrath of his enemies. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover urged his agents to dig up anything incriminating, and they returned with a far-fetched report that Oppenheimer “had homosexual tendencies.” The FBI wiretapped his phones. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) member Lewis Strauss rabidly pursued Oppenheimer’s downfall too after Oppenheimer humiliated him during a Senate hearing. And finally there was Teller, “the father...
...vitality. Doctorow aims for a myth that would link a nation on the edge of war and a boy approaching adolescence, but he is too cautious with his material. He calls the book a novel, yet it has few of the elements usually associated with the form. A melancholy Edgar ticks off his experiences and observations; his mother, brother and aunt make brief personal appearances, while the father remains silent and remote. Even the Bronx is incompletely perceived. Granted that it is not New York City's most glamorous borough, it is home to the Yankees...
BORN. To Candice Bergen, 39, cool, elegant blond actress (Carnal Knowledge, Rich and Famous) and author of a best-selling memoir (Knock Wood) about her life as Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's daughter; and her husband Louis Malle, 53, French director (Lacombe, Lucien, Atlantic City); their first child (Malle has two children from a previous marriage), a daughter; in New York City. Name: Chloe. Weight...
...Register, by contrast, has upped its circulation since 1979 by 36%, to 274,000. The competition grew keener last spring, when the Register won a Pulitzer for its photographic coverage of the Los Angeles Olympics. "We're certainly feeling their heat," admits Los Angeles Times Publisher Tom Johnson. For Edgar Trotter, chairman of the communications department at California State University, Fullerton, the metamorphosis of the Register is "the single most exciting development that I've witnessed in journalism...