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...more than a half-century, Luce was on whispering terms with history, the friend of Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, the wife of America's most prominent publishing tycoon, the acquaintance of every President from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan. Yet even as she was winning over great men, she was overturning the very notion of the "great man" by storming all the old boys' clubs of power without ever relinquishing her femininity. In the space of 20 years, while presiding as the darling of the society columns, she was managing editor of a national magazine, successful Broadway playwright...
...many of the Buckners' friends the explanation just didn't ring true. They knew Kirk as a good-natured teen, devoted to his family, who seemed incapable of such cold-blooded violence. "I'd seen him with his brothers and how he loved his mother," says Neighbor Mary Shoemaker. Her son Billy, 15, was a close friend of Kirk's and once saved him from drowning. "I never thought Kirk did it," he says...
Haunted by his own suspicions, Sheriff Fraker began to probe a bit more. He called in Sergeant Tom Martin, a friend with the Missouri Highway Patrol. The two reviewed the evidence and discovered several curious discrepancies. How could Kirk, who weighed only 130 lbs., have moved his 250-lb. father so far from their farmhouse? Schnick's wounds, it turned out, were superficial. Although Schnick claimed he had attacked the boy only with a steak knife, an autopsy revealed that Kirk may have died from a gunshot. Then, at the high school where Kirk had just begun his freshman year...
...winning quality, and it had it in spades, more than any book I have ever read," says Gary Fisketjon, leaving the impression that even casual acquaintance with the novel (a 250- year-old art form) is unnecessary baggage in today's paper chase. Fisketjon, 33, McInerney's close friend at Williams College in the mid-'70s, pushed Bright Lights when he worked at Random House. He is now editorial director of Atlantic Monthly Press and, as yuppie-fiction's most visible impresario, a celebrity in his own right...
Rutger Fury, former national political writer for The National Enquirer, is a close friend of Jeffrey J. Wise...