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...Walt Frazier Jr., son of the former NBA star, leads the backcourt, dishing off 64 assists while scoring nine points a game. A pair of 6-ft., 7-in. freshmen, Ben Spiva (10.2 p.p.g, 5.7 r.p.g.) and Hassan Duncombe...
...satiric essay called "Igor Stravinsky: The Selected Phone Calls," the humorist Ian Frazier pretends to rummage through old telephone bills for clues to the composer's life. For serious historians, the situation seems less funny. "I know more about the Kennedy assassination than anyone," says William Manchester, author of The Death of a President, "but I know more about the Dardanelles in 1915 than I do about the assassination. In 1915, people put everything on paper. Now, it's all done over the telephone." Notes Historian Barbara Tuchman: "Phone bills won't tell you much, and as a result, contemporary...
DEBUTANTE: THE STORY OF BRENDA FRAZIER...
...Brenda Frazier was not the richest or the most beautiful girl in '30s America, she came close enough. She was the glittering symbol of privilege and glamour; her picture made the cover of LIFE; women imitated her Kabuki-like look, with a complexion evoking Colette's description of "milk in shadow." Brenda was seen with notables from Errol Flynn to Cardinal Spellman to Irving Berlin. But obscurity overtook her, and in later years she viewed her life as a cosmic joke: she had become one of the most famous people in the nation simply because of a debutante party...
This episode ends happily, and so do all of Frazier's stories. The reader winds up laughing and knowing a great deal about subjects -- bears in northwestern Montana, a pair of madcap Soviet emigre artists -- that most people can live without. The author's loopy laziness is a pose; he works carefully and hard to make everything look like...