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Author Alex Haley and his friend Lamar Alexander booked passage together in 1988 on a cargo ship from California to Australia, aiming to write books away from the distractions of their Tennessee home base. Every evening the pair would emerge from a day of writing in their cabins to watch the "green flash," which can sometimes be seen just before the sun disappears below the horizon. "He'd talk, and I'd listen," Haley recalls. "Lamar talked night after night about the desperate need to improve American education. It was in his marrow. He felt impotent to do the things...
...boyish-looking, sandy-haired native of the small east Tennessee town of Maryville forgets nothing. "If he ever met you, he'll remember you," says Haley. Alexander is an inveterate notetaker, scribbling reminders about all sorts of ideas and activities on clipboard pads or handy scraps of paper. On his sea voyage -- where he was writing Six Months Off, a memoir of stepping out of his professional life -- Alexander made a list of things to be accomplished each day and crossed them off each evening. "If he has a fault, it is that he is not much at having...
...Concerned Businessmen's Association of America, holds antidrug contests and awards $5,000 grants to schools as a way to recruit students and curry favor with education officials. West Virginia Senator John D. Rockefeller IV unwittingly commended the CBAA in 1987 on the Senate floor. Last August author Alex Haley was the keynote speaker at its annual awards banquet in Los Angeles. Says Haley: "I didn't know much about that group going in. I'm a Methodist." Ignorance about Scientology can be embarrassing: two months ago, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, noting that Scientology's founder "has solved the aberrations...
...irony was that Malcolm never had a scratch while Dr. King experienced the contrary," said Haley...
...Haley also credited Harvard for some of his success. Widener Library was "probably the best single source for information about ship building and ships," he said. Haley used the library's resources on slave ships when he researched Roots...