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...this point, Hoban wisely refrains from offering a madcap chase sequence replete with careening police cars and lovably inept thieves. The escapade is indeed comic, but only in the ease with which it is pulled off. The turtle keeper does not simply agree to look the other way while his charges are stolen; he packs them into traveling crates himself. Their mission routinely accomplished, William and Neaera find that no one has noticed...
...only book by a former White House employee to delve into Kennedy's sexual activities as President is Traphes Bryant's Dog Days at the White House. A temperamental, unreliable source, Bryant was an electrician and kennel keeper at the White House from Truman's days through Nixon's. The gossipy book is selling briskly with tales of backstairs intrigue that are impossible to verify...
...portrayed as a dedicated, hard-working loner who approved wiretaps only in matters of life and death. Hoover's picture was again on the cover of TIME in August of 1949, when the nation was concerned with internal security. The '40s director was observed as a dossier-keeper who carefully followed the peregrinations of the American left. Hoover's day-to-day operations remained a secret. The details of his abusive wiretaps, conspiracy with executives to misuse the bureau's power, and harassment of citizens are only now being told. They are the subject...
...thinks and talks exclusively about canoes. Refreshingly un-Thoreauvian, he prefers Tang to spring water when eating his homemade beef jerky. Vaillancourt is one of the last men in North America to make canoes the way the Eastern forest Indians made them. He is not only the keeper of an art but also an endangered species of American. In his " own beautifully crafted work, McPhee | treats both man and boat with all the respect and admiration their precarious I presence commands...
...time in adding to its first half lead, scoring on its possession in the second half. Behind an overpowering line, quarterback Fran Hickey sent Foye up the middle and Duvauchelle around end as Kirkland marched in from the Winthrop 45 in eight running plays, with Hickey scoring on a keeper. Foye powered off tackle for the two-point conversion, giving Kirkland a 14-0 lead...