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Among Maxwell's "secret admirers" is his new rival, owner Peter Kalikow of the Post, who says, "I like his background. His kind of rags-to-riches story happens in America a lot, but not in England." Born Jan Lodvik Hoch of Jewish peasant parents in Czechoslovakia, the future Maxwell left school after just three years. At 15 he joined the Czech underground. The Nazis shot his father and sent his mother to her death in a concentration camp. Wounded and captured in France, he escaped to Britain and joined its army at 16. After serving in postwar Berlin...
...Soviet Man, gazing at a gaggle of photographs of Czars and White Russian officers pasted on upside down and annulled by a white X -- are hopeful agitprop, infused with the same clean sharp humor that ran through the work of her German contemporary, the Dadaist Hannah Hoch...
...Hoch had two chances to win the Masters. Two three-foot putts. Two 60-foot misses...
Golf is a strange game. A bounce here, a roll there, and the difference between a green jacket and frustration is immense. Hoch learned that Sunday in Augusta, Ga. But countless golfers know how he feels...
That is why anyone who has ever played golf should feel sorry for Hoch. If we had a dollar for all the easy putts we have missed, we would have enough money to solve the federal deficit and the Latin American debt crisis, with plenty left over to purchase a few fast-food franchises...