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Apart from the pleasure he has derived from seeing himself solemnly quoted by critics and historians for years, Mayes kept his deception a secret in order to avoid embarrassing his publisher, George Macy, and one of the book's original reviewers, Harry Hansen, who urged his readers not to miss the biography and eventually became a close friend. Mayes finally decided to confess when he was asked to comment on criticisms of his book made in the more recent Alger biography by Ralph Gardner. The Horatio Alger Society, based in Lansing, Mich., and made up of 250 book buffs...
Despite repeated assurances that the President wants a prompt, thorough investigation, the White House has fought blatantly and with marked success to drag out Watergate, to stall the impeachment process by every possible means. Nixon's lawyers last week maneuvered in court to slow the case and kept stonewalling against the House Judiciary Committee's request for more evidence, to which it is entitled under the Constitution. The committee's impeachment timetable continued to slip badly...
...days of rain-soaked chill. Storms repeatedly swamped the dinghy. Spirits soared-and fell-as seven ships maddeningly passed within one or two miles without sighting the Baileys. Future transoceanic yachtspersons who think that waving a shirt attracts nautical attention will be sobered by the Baileys' experience. Sharks kept bumping the bottom of the raft, whether in hopes of turning it over or simply scratching their backs the Baileys could never decide...
...their ordeal. "We talked without the encumbrances of modern living; we explored the hidden depths of each other's characters," Maralyn at one time confides. But that is as much as either Bailey will allow in a book that is essentially an expansion of water-logged diaries kept during the trip, plus photographs, maps and useful illustrations. Just this capacity for even-keeled privacy seems to have pulled them through. "In some weird and detached way," Maralyn concludes, "we found peace in our complete and compulsory isolation." Mrs. Bailey admits that she is a fatalist. She also cannot swim...
...Gift. Ellington burst on the jazz scene in 1927 at Harlem's Cotton Club. Right into 1974 he kept a 16-piece band circling the globe. "What would I do sitting in one place?" he asked a few years ago. "How would I get to hear the new things I write? What reason would I have to retire from the road?" Only illness. Two months ago, Ellington entered Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center with lung cancer, then developed pneumonia. Last week, only a month after his 75th birthday, Edward Kennedy Ellington died...