Word: mccall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hearst's monthly American Druggist, he was, when Waugh wrote for him in the 1940s, one of the nation's most eminent magazine editors. By the time he retired in 1969, Mayes had guided the old Pictorial Review, as well as Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and McCall...
...live again in a series of anecdotes. John O'Hara, who once threatened to "break every bone in your body" after Mayes refused to send him $25,000 forthwith for the right merely to read the manuscript of Ten North Frederick for possible excerpting. Eleanor Roosevelt, a onetime McCall's contributor, who offered him a ride home one night, though she did not have a car. "Let's both go out and stand on the curb," she advised, "and pretty soon somebody will come along in a car and recognize me and offer us a lift...
Announcing the nation's highest award in architecture, AIA Newsletter editor Peter C. McCall said yesterday, "So influential and far-reaching is the work of Jose Luis Sert that the social awareness and concepts of artistic collaboration that he brought to the practice of architecture have become almost commonplace...
...yards, after New England went ahead for the last time. And Chuck Foreman scored on a 1-yard plunge with five seconds remaining. Ivory's lightning dash at 7:18 of the third quarter followed an 8-yd. TD pass from quarterback Bert Jones to Reese McCall that had given Baltimore a 21-17 lead after coming from behind for the third time...
Harrison, to be fair, is not without inadequacies of her own. She write often for magazines like Ms., Viva and Ladies' Home Journal, and either her editors or her own sense of her audience mar some of the pieces in Off Center. The McCall's article on the Moonies, for instance, opens with a paragraph as purple and swollen as a bad bruise. Sometimes Harrison's inspired chat turns to chaff--she goes completely gaga over Dick Cavett in a profile piece that is all flutter and giggles, just like the show. Occasionally we get the feeling that...