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...McCann for example, is a jazz pianist whose moves towards pop have earned him enthusiastic applause. His "commercialized heavy soul" and his blend of blues chords have, gained him a large following. He will be playing at Paul's Mall this weekend. Not an establishment noted for scraping the musical barrel. Go hear...
...McCann is sentimental when he calls Eli Black's suicide and the decline of United Fruit a tragedy. He has fastened onto the right image, but for the wrong people: it is unlikely that many tears were shed in Tegucigalpa. Black's plunge from the Pan American Building was the fall of the patriarch, the bringing to earth of the gods; it marks the era of United Fruit's demythification. This book shows that the times has passed in which the company and its work could only be described in fiction or polemic. It is time for a real historian...
Harvard's varsity got off to a roaring start when both Gene Vastole and Erich Mandelbaum swept their bouts in the foil division. David McCann followed in the same category, winning one bout and dropping...
...life and libido. Not just any woman, but Dorothy Scruff, coquettish, aging (73) heiress to the Kuhn, Loeb investment-banking fortune and longtime publisher, editor-in-chief and sole owner of the New York Post. In an authorized biography, Men, Money and Magic: The Story of Dorothy Schiff (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; $9.95), to be published in October, Author Jeffrey Potter quotes Dolly Schiff as admitting to a "relationship" with Roosevelt from 1936 to 1943-when she was in her thirties and he in his fifties and early sixties. "Apparently I was considered very sexy in those days, and he probably...
...York's Bellevue Hospital, and other popular books. Not one to miss an opportunity to publish, the articulate Litchfield, Minn., surgeon has now made the most of his unfamiliar position at the other end of the scalpel. In a new book titled Surgeon Under the Knife (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; $8.95), Nolen tells an exciting life-and-death story-his own-and also provides useful insights that should help less informed surgery patients...