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...huge variety," says Matthew J. Finch '89, Dudley house committee co-chairman. "It's as individualistic as the Adams House stereotype...
...Lauren Chang N N Tyler Chapman Y (absent) Farai Chideya Y Y Julie Chodacki N N James Chung Y N Jeff Cooper N Y Rich Cooperstein N N Jennifer Copaken Y Y Jeffery Crespin Y Y David Eich (absent) (absent) Richard Eisert N N Valerie Feldman Y Y Matt Finch N N Todd Flynn N N Alex Frenkel N Y Mike Goldenberg Y Y David Golob N N Rob Greenstein Y Y Jennifer Grossman Y Y Steve Grover Y Y Jonathan Hacker N Y Stephen Hearst Y Y George Ho Y Y Bonnie Huang Y Y Elizabeth Hughes...
...gathered to watch the electronic tickers in brokers' offices or stare at television monitors through plate-glass windows. In downtown Boston, police ordered a Fidelity Investments branch to turn off its ticker because a throng of nervous investors had spilled out onto Congress Street and was blocking traffic. George Finch, 66, a retired businessman in San Francisco, summed up the bewilderment: "I don't know what the hell is going...
...question has been raised whether Markham's memoir could have been her own work, given her lack of formal schooling. Biographer Lovell's convincing answer is yes. The scholar and legendary white hunter Denys Finch Hatton, Blixen's great love and one of Beryl's many, had helped Markham make up much of the education she had missed. Though her good friend, the aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, strongly influenced her writing, chronology shows that the work could not have been his. Her third husband, a failed writer named Raoul Schumacher, did some useful editing, but despite embittered...
George Plimpton is most widely known as the lean and rumpled patrician who trained with the Detroit Lions and then shared that male fantasy with football fans in his best-selling Paper Lion. Now, in The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, Plimpton indulges the fantasy that he is a novelist. The book, which began as a benign hoax in the April 1, 1985, issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is based on a charming conceit: a narrator suffering from writer's block tells the story of Sidd Finch, a British-born Buddhist-trained monk who can throw a baseball 168 m.p.h with...