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That bashed artifact bounces repeatedly in the rest of Underworld, eventually coming to rest in the possession of Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm in Phoenix, Ariz., who pays $34,500 to a New Jersey memorabilia dealer named Marvin Lundy for the Thomson souvenir. Why buy something that even the seller cannot authoritatively trace back to Bobby Thomson's bat? (DeLillo's readers know about Cotter Martin and can make the connection, but his characters can't.) Why, especially, since Nick was a teenager in the Bronx and a desperate Dodgers fan when the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HOW DID WE GET HERE? | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...circumstances in 1975. Carey edged Hoffa in the race for the presidency last fall, but Hoffa has jumped on the fund-raising charges to demand a new election. "If Carey loses the strike or is perceived to have lost, his position vis-a-vis Hoffa is markedly weakened," says Marvin Kosters, a labor expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PERILS OF TEAMSTERS' BOSS RON CAREY | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...hitched a ride to a party in a chauffeured Kennedy campaign car that then collided with another car. The injured (and apparently ungrateful) foursome sued J.F.K. for $450,000. Among the plaintiffs: HUGH BAILEY, a colorful state senator known for his regular antics on a donkey, who hired lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, later of palimony fame. As Mitchelson's interrogatories began chipping into valuable White House time, J.F.K.'s lawyers tried a now familiar tactic. They argued that the Commander in Chief was temporarily protected from suit under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940. A California court rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLASHBACK | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...were just Marvin Philip Aufrichtig, the name he was given 53 years ago, New York City and the sports world would not have been sent reeling last week. But because the divorced father of four charged with assaulting a woman and forcing her into a sex act in a Virginia hotel room last February is NBC's famous Yesss! man, Marv Albert, the city's tabloids and radio shows had a field day. NO! read the front page of the Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORTSCASTERS BEHAVING BADLY? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...couple's Dynamic Energy Resources Inc., a separate $160,000 payment and a golf-club membership. With the pressure on him, say close observers of the proceedings, Brown may be tempted to cut his own deal, and he just may have information to trade on former D.N.C. official MARVIN ROSEN, who was at the controls of the runaway Democratic fund-raising machine during the '96 election, was a lobbyist at the same firm as Brown and was also a Kennedy confidant. The Lums have tales to tell about many other figures in the fund-raising scandal. They crossed paths with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUND RAISING | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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