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Over the decades the section has honed the talents of writers who went on to fame, among them Novelist John Hersey and Essayist John McPhee. Recalls Hersey of his first TIME job, which paid $35 a week in 1937-38: "I got to know a lot of famous people, some of whom were dead." McPhee, whose term was 1958-59, still remembers a favorite epithet, "roadside gourmet," in an item on traveling Restaurant Critic Duncan Hines...
Fifteen acts primarily from the Northeast will be taped for the show on Friday night at Tufts University's McPhee Hall. Ten other acts will be taped Thursday night at MIT's Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity...
...Original McPhee...
Your pleasant review of John McPhee's book In Suspect Terrain [Jan. 31] states: "No other journalist avoids the obvious with as much success as John McPhee. To hold readers through books about oranges, the New Jersey Pine Barrens or birchbark canoes is a tribute to his eye for narrative grain and hand for prose dovetails. The sanding and finishing are done by editors at The New Yorker, where McPhee's books first appear." In actuality, John McPhee's prose is written, sanded and polished by John McPhee...
NONFICTION: Blue Highways, William Least Heat Moon ∙ Growing Up, Russell Baker ∙ Hospital, Michael Medved ∙ In Suspect Terrain, John McPhee ∙ Isak Dinesen, Judith Thurman ∙ The Path to Power, Robert A. Caro