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...stalking through the Lincolnshire marshes for most of his 62 years. Hunter, guide, marsh warden, bird advisory officer, conservationist, naturalist and lecturer, he is a legendary figure in British wildlife circles. He is called Kenzie the Wild-Goose Man. He is also the Owl Man, the Weasel Man, the Finch Man−a caller of the wild who can lure a hare from its hole or a baby seal onto the beach. Thorpe can mimic 88 different bird calls, ranging from the swallow's high titter to the low cluck of the red-legged partridge and the sexy whistle...
...curiosity is any sense of the vitality of its subject. Isak Dinesen's writing was mercurial, elaborate and passionate. Her life was filled with tragedy and long illness as well as with adventure. Her husband was the model for Hemingway's Francis Macomber; her great love, Denys Finch-Hatton, was one of the legendary hunters of Kenya. For those who know Dinesen's life and work, the characters and settings are here. Otherwise the book is a family album...
Last week a group from the Republican Party's innermost circle sat down for a secret meeting at the national committee office to review this fall's campaign and map tactics for 1972. Among those attending: Mitchell, Finch, Rogers Morton and his brother, former National Committee Chairman Thruston Morton, House Campaign Chairman Bob Wilson and his Senate counterpart John Tower, and Leonard Hall, the architect of Dwight Eisenhower's 1956 campaign. Hall was there because he alone among the group had experience in running a campaign for an incumbent President...
...quarterback of the Buffalo Bills to run for the House and turned out to be as successful in politics as he had been on the field.* He had help from an old friend of his days on Governor Ronald Reagan's staff, White House Adviser Robert Finch, and from Nixon's director of communications, Herb Klein. Kemp, 35, who campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964, pointed his campaign to the right of center, wiring the President his support of the Cambodian invasion and calling for a moratorium on criticism of the Administration's war policies...
Rock Singer Grace Slick, the limpid-eyed beauty who is the air of Jefferson Airplane, reveals in Stereo Review that she once tried to turn on the President. Tricia Nixon had invited fellow alumnae of Manhattan's Finch College to a White House party, and Grace took along Abbie Hoffman as escort. She also brought 600 micro-milligrams of LSD for the tea. White House guards, Grace claims, threw her and Hoffman out. "Boy, were they right," said Grace. "I really would have done it. I figured the worst thing a little acid could do to Tricia is turn...