Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years at Harper, Executive Vice President Thomas, 46, has carved a unique niche in hard-cover journalism. To Svetlana's memoirs, Thomas can add such glittering editorial credits as Maxwell Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, Matthew Ridgway's Soldier, John Gardner's Excellence, Chester Bowles's Ambassador's Report, Merriman Smith's Thank You, Mr. President, William Attwood's The Reds and The Blacks, Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy and William Manchester's The Death of a President. Only as a sideline does Thomas edit a few novelists, including John Cheever...
Manchester indulges himself in a welter of detail so massive, confusing, and personal that one is forced to gape instead of emphathize--or remember. The poignant moments--like John Kennedy Jr.'s salute to his dead father outside of St. Matthew's Cathedral--are preserved. Utterly absurd events are related as well, but Manchester won't allow them to stand for themselves. He adds his own brand of brutal interpretation. He spends, for example, eight pages relating the difficulty Kennedy's staff had when they attempted to leave Parkland Hospital with the President's body and return quickly to Washington...
...known this was going to be a contest, I would not have stopped at nine," said Rose); in Washington, D.C. The couple's nine other children: Kathleen, 15; Joseph, 14; Robert Jr., 13; David, 11; Courtney, 10; Michael, 8; Kerry, 7; Christopher, 3; and Matthew...
Occasionally a craftsman of exceptional talent-a Matthew Pratt or Charles Willson Peale-would take up painting as a career. But producing folk art remained largely a part-time occupation of the village cabinetmaker, sign painter, stonecutter or shipwright-or was carried on by the womenfolk at home. The practitioners were nearly always self-taught, untrained in technique or even perspective, and tended to thrive far from urban cultural centers. But they made up for their deficiencies with sharp-eyed observation, an infectious joyousness in their labor, and a remarkable freshness of vision (see color...
...Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, Dr. John T. Edsall, professor of Biological Chemistry, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, and University of Illinois biochemist Irwin Gunsalus met for an hour and a half with President Johnson's scientific advisor, Donald Hornig, and Adrian Fisher, deputy director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...