Word: harper
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Until then, however, the veteran coach will be depending on senior co-captain Sue Harper, who normally runs hurdles and the 400-meter relay, to leap into the jumping events...
...emissaries from the U.S. heavyweights: Women's Wear Daily (Publisher John Fairchild, Associate Editor Carolyn Gottfried, European Fashion Writer Marian McEvoy), the New York Times (Morris, Carrie Donovan of the Sunday Magazine), the Washington Post (Hyde), the International Herald Tribune (Hebe Dorsey), Vogue (Fashion Editor Polly Mellen) and Harper's Bazaar (Fashion Editor Gloria Moncur). In their hearts they know that however expert they are at fashion journalism, their heft and influence derive primarily from the importance of their publications. Opposite them were the most influential Europeans. Said Dorsey, a veteran hemline watcher...
Fiction is full of lawyers, from Louis Auchincloss's glossy barristers to the spoonbread counselors of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. But none of them seems as recognizable-or amiable-as the hero of George V. Higgins' latest novel. Moreover, if Kennedy's clients are criminals, they are also Higgins' liveliest creations. Take Cadillac Teddy, a professional car thief who specializes in Cadillacs. "Your Porsche, your Corvette, your Jaguar, your Mercedes, I can get you them, but I'm not used to them, you know?" His current complaint: a state trooper has eaten his driver...
...Atlantic's chief rival is Harper's (circ. 301,000). Since 1952 the two publications have sold advertising jointly, an arrangement made possible by their similar circulation and demographics. Editorially the two monthlies go their separate ways. Harper's, founded seven years before the Atlantic, is usually feistier. Harper's tone is set by the crotchety essays of Editor Lewis H. Lapham, 45, who slays the fashions of the moment with 18th century prose. Circulation is down 68,000 since 1970, however, and Harper's owner for the past 15 years, John Cowles...
...BEGINNING PLACE by Ursula K. Le Guin; Harper & Row; 183 pages...