Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story was written by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, with accompanying pieces by Associate Editors James Atwater and Frank Merrick. For Magnuson, who wrote much of our Watergate coverage, it was not a welcome task. "Any comparison between Bert Lance's troubles and the enormity of Watergate is ridiculous," he says. "But I'm getting a little tired of writing about guys in trouble...
...cribbing. Recalls Ringgold: "When I left, I threw away all my uniforms. I was sick of the academy." After he lost a federal court suit charging that the honor code was unconstitutional, he "floundered a lot" until he entered Arizona State University last spring. Then Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman, the former astronaut and old West Pointer ('50) who headed the commission that probed the scandal, wrote encouraging him to go back. "I knew I wouldn't be at peace with myself until I finished," says Ringgold...
Nelson turned out to be the natural bridge between country music's beer-drinker followers and its longhair fans. As a singer, he is a careful stylist who knows about the niceties of phrasing and admires Frank Sinatra. When Willie sings his songs of troubled romance or lonely Bloody Mary mornings, his voice has none of the beery sentimentality found in many honky-tonk laments. "What we do is fairly simple," he says with genuine modesty. "If people like it, they really like it and they'll come back again...
...Frank Rich...
...difficult to imagine a more complete collection of a man's work and life than the quantity of material Yardley, a 1968-69 Nieman Fellow, compiled in Ring. He begins the book with the essence of Lardner's world, Frank Chance's baseball diamond, and traces his writing career to its sad, unfulfilled end. Baseball, to Lardner, was an American institution. He loved the players, and revered them as heroes the way most of America did--but Lardner's coverage of the White Sox for the Chicago Tribune was much more than sports-writing. The spectators held just as much...