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Perhaps the popular myth of virtue triumphing over adversity persists be cause it is true. Angus Mack Gaither, 18, of Thompsonville, Ill., lost his father in 1968. Angus, his mother and his elder brother Jewell took over the management of the family's 400-acre farm. In 1971 Angus' brother had a stroke, leaving him a semi-invalid, and the burden of running the farm fell to Angus and his mother. Angus rose at 5:00 a.m. to do his chores, and some times worked in the fields-raising soy beans, corn, cattle and hogs-until midnight. During...
...AILEEN ELDER MEHLE, better known as "Suzy," has been tracking the prominent for 23 years. She worked her way up from the Miami News to the New York Daily News in 1967, and is today syndicated in 89 papers. Suzy is not above mixing with mere movie stars for her chatty "Suzy Says" column, but prefers writing about diplomats, heiresses, princes and other members of what used to be called the jet set. She can be a bit saccharine ("Fatesingh, the Maharajah of Baroda . . . goes by the impossible nickname of Jackie") but is rarely arch. "Everyone I meet...
...began with Missouri Congressman James Symington quipping, "We have been brought together by the big enchilada of the Democratic Party." Some 750 Democrats, including Senators Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Ted Kennedy, Ed Muskie and "Scoop" Jackson, paid $125 for dinner at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to honor Elder Statesman Averell Harriman, 82, and raise money for party candidates. There was also a Republican maverick. Describing herself as "just an old, broken-down Bull Moose," Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 90, said the dinner was. her first-ever Democratic bash. Marking Harriman's 40-year career as a politician...
From the very beginning, the appeal of the fin was irresistible. The very word angling derives from the ancient Greek onkos, or barbed hook. Circa 200 B.C., Cato the Elder (manifestly a non-angler) was astonished by tales of "a city where fish sold for more than an ox." (To the fisherman, the situation is unsurprising; acquiring the fish called for more ingenuity, greater effort and less tenderizer.) History's most prominent fisherman was, of course, St. Peter, who later turned to netting souls. In the years A.D., angling was seen as something more than the mere coaxing...
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is by Lonne Elder IV, an up-and-coming black playwright from New York City, and you can find a review on page two, I believe. 7:30 at the Loeb...