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McMullan has been with the Knight (now Knight-Ridder) newspaper chain ever since 1957. When he was assigned to liven up its Washington bureau, his eagerness produced an uneasy rebuke from the bureau chief: "John, you were sent here to fill a vacuum, not overflow it." In 1970 McMullan left to execute a wholesale purge of the chain's newly acquired Philadelphia Inquirer. In three years, McMullan replaced a third of the paper's reporting staff, including virtually every department head. The overhaul was to turn the Inquirer into one of the strongest newspapers...
Vinogradov, 44, is now working on a ballet about the life of Charlie Chaplin. He intends to invite Maurice Béjart to stage it in Leningrad. The gossip is that Vinogradov was brought into the Kirov five years ago to liven things up and keep the younger generation of dancers interested. Vinogradov is a snappy dresser who likes wide pinstripes or a modified cowboy look. He seems to emerge from a Soviet equivalent of gilded youth, cosmopolitan, familiar with the latest trends in all the arts. His choreography is similar to that of several young Americans and Europeans...
...pallor has been as unnatural as most of the players' reactions are to anything. New concepts of golf courses: "stadium" golf, "target" golf. New shades of golf balls: orange and lime ones that resemble kumquats and brussel sprouts rolling along the yard. In an unusual attempt to liven things up and make himself distinguishable from the other blonds, Jerry Pate has actually taken to throwing himself into water hazards...
...rich people in town, but there's nowhere for them to live. And there's a guy who plays trumpet on the wharf whenever anything romantic happens. And there's also a piano on the wharf (and another in, of all places, Doc's laboratory) so that Mac can liven up spontaneous parties with his honky tonk jazz. And everyone speaks in cliches, and the sky is always purple and torrid like one of those sea scenes from Woolworth...
...ranter or a raver-he's not even a talker. He's very proud of his successes, but he doesn't care about fame and fortune. He really doesn't. He's very easy to live with-I'm the maniac. I liven him up; he calms me down. Joe doesn't say a lot, but whatever he does say is interesting, thoughtful. He's funny-he makes me laugh. Still, I sometimes think that if he played football the way he conducts his life-well, he just wouldn...