Word: marmon
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...only thing that will turn a man's head faster than a passing pretty girl is an antique car moving majestically down the slow lane on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Duesenberg, Auburn, Cord, Marmon, Stutz, Fierce-Arrow and Franklin have the glamour of old movie stars-and are usually better preserved. The value of these classics now runs into six figures. American Classic Cars by Henry Rasmussen (Picturama/Schocken; unpaged; $24.50) allows the subcompact set to relive the golden age of the luxury automobile. A look at masterpieces as rare as a glimpse of Garbo...
...message struck a special chord in me," said Los Angeles Correspondent William Marmon, whose long interview with Alex Haley, the author of Roots, accompanies our cover story. Marmon, whose own roots were in the South, finds that he too has "rattling around in my head some near-biblical family stories told and retold by my grandmother." Like many white Southerners, Marmon chafed against the "distorting experience" of segregation and, to help counteract it, wrote his senior thesis at Princeton on the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s. Correspondent Edward Boyer, who sat in on the interview with Haley, felt a shock...
...every mail brings bulging sacks of letters to Alex Haley?all of it evidence of the astonishing impact produced by his saga of a black family's tortuous trail to freedom. Haley thinks he knows why Roots touched all America. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent William Marmon, he explained his own theory of the Roots phenomenon and told how he came to write the book...
...brink of closing. The longest of these shutdowns started last Oct. 15 in Eagle Point (pop. 2,600). Five times since last April the district's school board has proposed budgets of nearly $5 million; five times the voters have rebuffed them. TIME Correspondent William Marmon visited the town and reported...
Movie and TV Critic Richard Schickel wrote the story, based on reporting by Leo Janos and William F. Marmon Jr. in Los Angeles and Mary Cronin, Janice Castro and Jean Vallely in New York. As the Show Business/Television reporter-researcher, Vallely rivals Duffy in periodic movie marathons (up to four films in a day). But she recalls that as a child, "movies were only something for a rainy day. It wasn't healthy to spend so much time indoors." Instead, her family would often trek from their home in Falmouth, Me., to leftfield in Fenway Park to watch...