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...Baccalaureate Address in the Memorial Church on Tuesday, University President Lawrence H. Summers cited the Vietnam War as an example of what can happen “when people fail to think things through.” In his watershed book The Best and the Brightest, David L. Halberstam ’55 showed that it was precisely a group of Harvard affiliates who were the cause of that folly, “a certain breed of men…in their minds they become responsible for the country, but not responsive...
...rendezvous, Crimson editors reneged on their side of the deal. With David L. Halberstam ’55 at the wheel, Maccoby jumped into the back of The Crimson’s getaway car, which promptly departed for New York...
...book, The Powers That Be, David Halberstam ’55 praises Sussman for his editorial skills and journalistic judgement...
...lively, elegant writing; of complications from a stroke; in New York City. After graduating from Penn State, he worked at TIME and Newsweek and as the editor of Penthouse and Family Weekly. In 1983 he took over GQ, where he provided a home for writers as diverse as David Halberstam, Peter Mayle and Michael Kelly before retiring this spring...
...curtain rises on the twilight of the boyhood idols: in October 2001. Williams, "the Splendid Splinter," was on his deathbed in Florida. Pesky and DiMaggio, both in their 80s, embarked on a 1,300-mile car trip to visit him. Halberstam braids together the story of their road trip--that other great American pastime--with an account of their bittersweet seasons as Red Sox. Though they played as a foursome from 1942 to 1951, minus a few years for World War II, they never won a World Series, and in 1949 they lost the pennant to the New York Yankees...