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...called them "irrational and indefensible and inexcusable and inexplicable." Thus they offer a fertile field for investigative reporters, and more attempted exposés may be on the way. Nicholas Horrock and a team of fellow New York Timesmen are reported to be poking anew into the tragedy. Ladislas Farago, a writer on military and espionage subjects, is said to be preparing a long book about Chappaquiddick...
Yale slipped onto the scoreboard at 81:10 after Captain Fred Herold was removed from the nets to a standing ovation from the Crimson contingent. Paul Farago jumped on a loose ball for the Eli score...
After Eli Joe Mensah scored on an assist from Steve Farago at 1:55 of the first period, the game settled down to fairly evenhanded back-and-forth play--fairly even, that is, until midway through the second half, when the Crimson offense came alive but couldn't put the ball into...
...courtly, goateed Farago (pronounced Far-ago) has a shelf of books to his credit, including Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, on which the movie Patton was partially based, and The Broken Seal, which was one basis for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! He has also contracted, for an advance of more than $150,000, to write two books for Doubleday, one of them on J. Edgar Hoover. But first, he proposes to expand his Bormann material into a book for Simon & Schuster, with whom he contracted last week for an advance of more than...
...soft-blue pajamas and struck back at the skeptics. At the same time, he struck out at the London Daily Express. He insisted that he had conclusive proof of Bormann's whereabouts and could have had more if the Express had not "blown the whole damn thing." Farago complained that the Express, afraid it was about to be scooped by a Bormann story in the London Daily Mail, had rushed into print before he was ready. (Express Editor Ian McColl replied that he had not heard of any other Bormann story, and that Farago had never protested that...