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...editors have a fear that they aren't admired enough. John Hughes, who retired this month as editor of the Christian Science Monitor and last month completed a term as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, warned his colleagues in a farewell address that "our profession . . . isn't currently in high repute. The polls indicate that our credibility with the public is lower than that of many other professions." There are three things wrong with that statement. Newspaper editing isn't a profession, its public standing is about as high as it ever...
...boys, both named Paul, both juniors, come in. One admits his parents have separated only this week. "Isn't it a wonderful feeling, alone and left out?" laughs Martha, immediately sobering and repeating sympathetically, "Are you alone and left out?" "Yeah," says Paul...
...might expect Ullmann's acting to be a redeeming feature, but it isn't. Partly to exonerate her feeble efforts, it must be said that the role of Mama has not been written or developed. It is not even scribbled in. However, the mark of a professional is to be able to make something out of nothing. Instead, Ullmann lapses into a series of alternating smiles and frowns. There is no sense of emo tional conviction: it is as if she were making faces before an imaginary mirror. Too many years before the camera, perhaps, where her superbly...
...Little, 87, peppery football coach at Columbia University for 26 seasons beginning in 1930; of a heart attack; in Delray Beach, Fla. Little's teams were famous for upset victories, among them a 1934 Rose Bowl win over Stanford, but his most enduring legacy was a winning-isn't-the-only-thing philosophy that was reflected in the de-emphasis of football throughout the Ivy League in the 1950s. The sport, he worried, had become "a sensible game surrounded by crazy people...
Another new/old face, former Massachusetts governor Michael S. Dukakis, joined the ranks in January when he took a teaching post at the Kennedy School. Dukakis, ousted from his previous job by voters in the state's Democratic primary the previous September, said "teaching isn't just telling someone...