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There have been lawyer-detectives and priest-detectives and even jockey-detectives, but perhaps the most intriguing blend of workaday occupation and avocational sleuthing is Charles Paris, an invention of English Writer Simon Brett. Charles is an actor-detective, perhaps the first and last of his breed. Performers are generally too self-absorbed to be much use in searching other people's motives...
...persuasions -and many independents too-are urging on the man who they think could restore leadership to an ineffectual White House. Draft-Kennedy movements are springing up everywhere, some of them led by former Carter supporters, and Kennedy's own elated staff members are beginning to jockey for positions in the would-be, might-be, soon-to-be campaign. Says an enthusiastic aide to California Senator Alan Cran- ston, the Senate whip and a top member of the Democratic establishment: "Everybody in California is just sitting and waiting for Kennedy. He has the Machinists Union, the United Auto Workers...
...essence he is the bloodless Levanter of Blind Date (1977), the vengeful wanderer Tarden of Cockpit (1975) and the haunted boy in Kosinski's first and best fiction, The Painted Bird. Fabian differs from his predecessors chiefly in occupation: he is a competitive horseman. The aging jockey plays a strange sort of polo - a one-on-one contest in which animal and rider become a single figure jousting on a timeless range. Like many equestrians, Kosinski's rider is graceful on horseback; dismounted from his horse, Big Lick, he becomes one more high-plains drifter...
...Sinfully Together" [July 9] you stated, "It used to be called living in sin.' " Sir, it still is called "living in sin." It amazes me how simple it is for people to jockey morality around to suit a lifestyle...
DIED. Conn McCreary, 58, racehorse trainer and jockey who won the Kentucky Derby aboard Pensive in 1944 and Count Turf in 1951; of a heart attack; in Ocala, Fla. The 4-ft. 8-in. McCreary won a reputation as a savvy, cool horseman during a 21-year career, and was elected to horse racing's Hall of Fame...