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Hard Luck. Quarry is one of three brawny, brawling brothers fathered by a former itinerant Irish club fighter who had the word HARD tattooed on his left fist and LUCK on his right. While bouncing between 30 different elementary and high schools in California, young Jerry broke his right hand punching a baseball umpire and suffered a twelve-stitch gash when someone shattered a pool cue over his head...
...Charles Magaziner is a former Long Island pizza-eating champion who has prodded Brown University into some of the liveliest academic reforms in the U.S. He did it by sheer intelligence, without manhandling a single dean. Last month Magaziner delivered the senior class valedictory, collected his magna cum laude degree in an interdisciplinary program called Human Studies, twirled his Phi Beta Kappa key and looked ahead to two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Brown itself looked ahead to sweeping curriculum changes that might never have occurred without Magaziner...
...year was 1922. Dada was dead, Surrealism not yet born. Max Ernst, a fledgling artist who had figured prominently in the former movement and would soon help formulate the latter, was in his native Cologne, yearning for the radical friends that he knew were spawning the most adventuresome ideas of the day in postwar Paris. For Germans in those days, French visas were almost impossible to obtain. Finally, one August night, Ernst slipped across the border. Later he turned up at the Paris apartment of two friends, the poet Paul Eluard and his wife Gala...
Married. Laura Louise Shepard, 21, older daughter of Astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American into space; and Army 2nd Lieut. Jonathan Churchill Snyder, 23, a former schoolmate at Principia College, Elsah, Ill.; in a Methodist ceremony in Houston...
Married. Theodore Sorensen, 41, former confidant and speechwriter for both John and Robert Kennedy, who is presently thinking about running for R.F.K.'s Senate seat from New York in 1970; and Gillian Martin, 28, daughter of President Nixon's newly appointed U.S. commissioner on aging; he for the third time; in a nondenominational ceremony in Grand Rapids, Mich...