Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second profile. Officials in crested blazers drooled at the prospect of Bogart Jackson trading wisecracks with Dave Marr or Byron Nelson or the writers. They pictured Bogart Jackson in a pink Izod t-shirt, navy polyester slacks, Spalding shoes, crunching the all-new dimple pattern off of Dunlop Max-Flis. "Bogart Jackson has angled his ball to within four feet of the cup, a remarkable effort here at Augusta," British CBS announcer Ben Wright would intone softly. "The Masters belongs...
...aides to do the same. This has led some critics to suggest that the Administration is insensitive to the appearance of financial impropriety. "Perhaps we're going to have to consider some strong, mandatory legislation," says Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. Casey's hand-picked deputy, Max Hugel, resigned in July amid accusations of past illegal stock manipulation. And Casey is currently under investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee for his own financial dealings, including his involvement in a New Orleans agricultural firm that went bankrupt. A report due to be released soon will not recommend Casey...
Jack Reed! Trotsky called him "observer and participant, chronicler and poet of the insurrection," and Lenin urged that Ten Days That Shook the World, Reed's report of the Russian Revolution, be "published in millions of copies and translated into all languages." Max Eastman said, "He had a reckless equilibrium in walking life's tightropes"; Walter Lippmann called him "one of the intractables," possessed with "an inordinate desire to be arrested." Max Lerner praised his "Faustian thirst for life"; Upton Sinclair dismissed him as a "playboy of the social revolution." Journalist and playwright, Harvard cheerleader and Moscow radical...
...even when she was busy with Fisher she was seeking other trophies, according to Kelley's complete but rather mean-spirited account (Simon & Schuster; $14.95). Perhaps the oddest head on Taylor's wall is that of Columnist Max Lerner. A professor of American civilization at Brandeis University and the distinguished author of numerous heavy tomes, Lerner was 57 when they began their romance. He was clearly nattered out of his Ph.D.s by finding that he was attractive to a creature like Taylor-"She said I was her intellectual Mike Todd," he brags to Kelley-and the most amusing...
...DIED. Max Scherr, 65, rotund, disorderly founder of the underground newspaper the Berkeley Barb; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Founded in 1965 during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the Barb proselytized for revolution, drugs and "free" sex, peaking at 90,000 readers in 1969, before closing in 1980. Scherr made the paper profitable not only by anticipating the sentiments of the "flower children" but also by paying low wages and raking in revenue from sexually explicit ads purchased by massage parlors...