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Politicians, like other people, are plainly living longer and enjoying it more. The suggestions by some professors and journalists that elected leaders often hate their work and are dying to get back to the ranch are mostly nonsense. They seem happier and more vigorous in Washington. Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter were all reluctant to leave the Oval Office...
...overall), Dartmouth (8-3 overall) will be looking for its first-ever Ivy title. The Crimson won the championship two years ago and shared it with Penn last year. But Harper--whose squad, many had thought, would be the Ivy pushover again this year--couldn't be happier with her squad's underdog status...
...beauty and talented painter from Arkansas, whom Mailer met in 1975 and married five years later. Says Author E.L. Doctorow (Ragtime), who once served as Mailer's editor before his own writing career prospered: "My feeling is that since he's married Norris he's been happier than he's ever been." Torres views the success of this marriage from a slightly different angle: "The other wives had to contend with the image. Now, because he's closer with himself, he's nicer to this wife...
This spring the mood is said to be greatly improved in the Baltimore clubhouse: retired Manager Earl Weaver has given up rhubarbs for tomatoes. Owner Edward Bennett Williams calls the withdrawal process "de-Weaverization," a happier state under congenial Joe Altobelli, though the results are what will tell. "Finally," Pitcher Jim Palmer says, "we're going to find out if we won despite Earl or because of him." The Yankees' clubhouse is filled, once again, with strangers, Steve Kemp, Don Baylor, a few other expensive new hands, prompting Third Baseman Graig Nettles to remark: "Every year, staying here...
...good at that. He should be doing it at NBC. Instead he delegates it to a swami like Brandon Tartikoff [president of NBC Entertainment]." So why was Tinker hired? Says Klein: "His boss at RCA, Thornton Bradshaw, said Tinker has 'bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there, it won't mean as much as it used to. Now it's just a bigger slice of a smaller...