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CRIMSON EDITORS still play hockey in the newsroom, but nobody plays it quite the way Michael J. Halberstam '53 did. One day in the spring of his freshman year, Halberstam got just a little carried away during a newsroom scuffle, jumped out a first-story window and landed hands-first on the concrete driveway. Re-entering the building through the front door, Halberstam said his hands hurt a little--in fact, he had broken both of them...
...Michael Halberstam did everything in his 48 years the same way he played hockey--intensely. A foremost physician, a noted author, and a determined athlete, Halberstam was the realization of an elusive ideal, the true renaissance man. "Nothing is wasted and every experience is used at least once," he once said; and the relish with which he approached the projects he worked on--including his practice as a foremost cardiology specialist and his well-received novel, The Wanting of A. L. Levine--put his credo onto practice...
What distinguished Halberstam above all, however, was his deep personal concern for the people he worked with: It is said that he never walked away from a situation that needed his attention. A man of extraordinary energy, Halberstam even drove himself to the hospital after a burglar pumped two fatal shots into his chest...
BORN. To David Halberstam, 46, Pulitzer-prizewinning Viet Nam correspondent for the New York Times and bestselling author of The Best and the Brightest and The Powers That Be, and his second wife, Jean Sandness Butler, 33, former Times style-section reporter: a daughter, their first child; in New York City. Name: Julia Sandness. Weight...
During its illustrious history, Harper's published the writing of Dickens, Trollope and Twain. In the late 1960s, Editor Willie Morris, a Mississippian who earned his spurs at the Texas Observer, signed up a bunch of literary gunslingers - Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, Larry King - to give the magazine what one critic called "sophistication with a whoop." Morris and his gang walked out in 1971 when Harper's absentee owners objected to that new direction...