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...early admissions mania has spread," says B. Ann Wright, chief public relations officer at Smith College and an expert on college admissions and financial...
Young fans will no doubt swoon, but some parents, like Ted Fishman of Chicago, are a bit alarmed by the merchandising mania. His 10-year-old daughter Elly has already circled half the inventory in the latest catalog for her holiday wish list. "These dolls are supposed to represent wholesomeness and frugality," he notes wryly. But slave girl Addy's ironstone compote set ($50) "costs more than a real set would." In that way, at least, these dolls are thoroughly modern...
...hunts and blacklistings during the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies, but it would be hard to find one among them that presents as nuanced, as humanly complex an account of those years as I Married a Communist. Nathan, for example, learns from Murray that Ira was a victim of the mania of his times but not an innocent one. He was a dedicated communist who lied to everyone, including Nathan's father, about his adherence to the dictates of Moscow. On the other hand, the forces that destroyed him were not particularly admirable either, beginning with an ill-chosen wife...
...highly commercial and cheesy Lindbergh mania seized the country, the 25-year-old loner, disconcerted and flattered at first, began to understand the price to be paid. Anne Morrow, the deeply private daughter of Dwight Morrow, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, married Lindbergh a year after the flight; she eventually became a superb and often popular writer (Gift from the Sea), but shared the terrible price of Lindbergh's celebrity (most devastatingly exacted in the kidnap-murder of their first child in 1932)--and suffered as well from her husband's self-absorbed and cross-grained nature...
...whatever William wanted." Wherever the 6-ft., 1-in. William goes these days, there are echoes of his mother. Blushing, doe-eyed, coy before the cameras, the prince has been mobbed by teenage girls ever since the teen magazine Smash Hits deemed him a pinup in 1995--and Wills mania is only getting worse. On his visit to Vancouver with his father in March, hyperventilating hordes followed him about, each girl convinced she was his true Cinderella. "He's rich, he's gorgeous and he's a prince," explained Jessica Toews, 14, who followed William up the ski slopes. "What...