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AUTHOR: JOHN McPHEE...
ASSEMBLING CALIFORNIA IS THE fourth and final volume of John McPhee's "Annals of the Former World" series, his reports on the new geology that began running in the New Yorker back in the Shawnian Era. That was before the Albion Shift uplifted Tina Brown from London and thrust her toward Manhattan, where she eventually docked as the magazine's new editor...
...sprayed aces and by ground strokes that delivered tennis balls with laser-like precision deep into his opponent's backhand. In fact, his game was the antithesis of his public persona. It was the fire that flowed out from behind an impassive mask and through his fingertips. In John McPhee's 1969 book Levels of the Game, Davis Cup teammate and occasional opponent Clark Graebner described Ashe's game: "He comes out on the court and he's tight for a while, then he hits a few good shots and he feels the power to surge ahead. He gets looser...
After graduating from Princeton in 1977 (and getting his own pep talk from author and former TIME writer John McPhee, with whom he took a journalism class), Jim came to TIME. He started out writing Milestones, where he learned that a life story could be told in a paragraph if necessary. He went on to handle slightly longer pieces in the Nation, World and Press sections, and became World editor in 1988. Last fall Jim was named assistant managing editor, overseeing a variety of sections, including Nation, Law, Education, Books and Interview...
...Harvard duo, which has not played in competition for a number of months due to a Zimmerman injury, dropped to the top-seeded USC pair of McPhee and Jonathan Leach in the semifinals...