Word: kanfer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stefan Kanfer...
...tantalizing white mice. Other pet owners include Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, whose wire-haired terrier Bravo resembles Asta in the Thin Man movies of the '30s; Assistant Managing Editor Richard Seamon, who is putting his nine-week-old Labrador through basic training; and Zookeeper-Essayist Stefan Kanfer, who rooms with two mice, five turtles and two cats somewhere in Tarrytown, N.Y. Reporter-Researcher Mary Themo, while getting together the pictures of pets that accompany the story, took time off to shop for a Christmas pet for her daughter Tracy...
Beyond such arithmetics, the nature of the sport makes the daily fray somewhat irrelevant as a contest. Stefan Kanfer has noted that baseball records are the most durable of all sports records and thus render the early days of the sport as significant statistically as the last decade. Other major sports are either too young or too modified to have left recognized landmarks in the 1880s...
Back in Forest Hills, Queens, N.Y., more than three decades ago, a nine-year-old showman named Stefan Kanfer amazed his friends by producing coins and cards out of thin air. "It was the old up-the-sleeve trick," recalls Kanfer, now anchor man of TIME'S Essay section, "and the coins would generally clatter to the floor, to my embarrassment. As a magician, I had ten things working against me-my fingers." So the young Kanfer went to New York University and ended up writing advertising copy, gag lines for Victor Borge, short fiction, TV programs...
...Kanfer's in-house accomplice for his story was Reporter-Researcher Patricia N. Gordon, who interviewed Doug Henning, star of Broadway's The Magic Show. "Henning lives magic," she says. "The enthusiasm he conveys is incredible. Talking to him, I fully expected him to turn into a cougar or burst into flames on the spot." Gordon also found Kanfer's spirited but unmethodical treatment of research materials somewhat extraordinary. "He puts everything together and it comes out pure Kanfer," she says. "That is really magic...