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...President, 1968, a savage back-room report on the manipulative TV advertising in Richard Nixon's campaign, made him, at 26, the youngest U.S. nonfiction writer to top the New York Times best-seller list. Other triumphs followed. If McGinniss did not quite rank with David Halberstam or John McPhee as a chronicler, he stood not too far behind...
...extend each other beyond the edge of what is possible. He does not report the gritty $ stretches when character rules the game's flow and the flow ruthlessly illuminates character. Bud Collins gave us such narration in his wonderfully lighthearted 1989 memoir, My Life with the Pros, and John McPhee wrote the classic tennis portraits (of Clark Graebner and Arthur Ashe) in Levels of the Game. Feinstein had the opportunity to write a book that would stand with these, but he is flat where he should be funny, and unevocative where he should sketch scenes...
First Period: 1, UNH, Ellen Weinberg (Karyn Bye) 56; 2, UNH, Bye (Karen Akre, Dawn Harris) 1:23; 3, UNH, Suzanne Merz (Colleen Coyne) 8:21. Penalties--UNH, Merz (slashing) 3:01; UNH, Amy McPhee (body check...
There was a certain exhilaration in the scurry and posturing of special interests, ringed around the central issue of abortion, but there was also concern. One of Washington's talented lawyers, Roemer McPhee, recalled how, as a young attorney in Dwight Eisenhower's White House, he harbored a mild doubt when Ike in 1956 nominated Democrat William Brennan, a practicing liberal. But McPhee, from New Jersey too, knew that Brennan was a thoughtful and decent man. Brennan was confirmed with hardly a ripple...
...Total 23 0 2 2 Home Runs-Princeton: Reming; HARVARD: None 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R HE Princeton 0 1 1 0 12 0 4 5 1 HARVARD 0 0 0 0 00 0 2 2 Princeton IP H R ER BB K McPhee (W) 7 2 0 0 2 3 HARVARD IP H R ER BB K Dorrington...