Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the pleasure he has derived from seeing himself solemnly quoted by critics and historians for years, Mayes kept his deception a secret in order to avoid embarrassing his publisher, George Macy, and one of the book's original reviewers, Harry Hansen, who urged his readers not to miss the biography and eventually became a close friend. Mayes finally decided to confess when he was asked to comment on criticisms of his book made in the more recent Alger biography by Ralph Gardner. The Horatio Alger Society, based in Lansing, Mich., and made up of 250 book buffs, provided...
Familiar and Folksy. His style was familiar, direct and often pleasantly illuminated with scholarly or folksy references. U.S. policy in Viet Nam reminded him of Little Miss Fix-It, "who ends up with blood all over her pretty little hands." On governmental censorship, he complained that the Administration was suffering from "Daddy-knowsbestism-telling us not to ask questions or Daddy spank." Or on Watergate, recalling his own service in the OSS and his close study of the techniques of other spy services, Alsop could write with coldly measured indignation: "Politicians have played tricks on each other since politics...
...times a week in the Los Angeles Times and 58 other papers. An alumna of TIME'S Beverly Hills bureau, she replaced Hedda Hopper in 1966, and West Coast wits began referring to her as Hedda Haber. At first she adopted a bitchy, initial-cluttered style ("What was Miss P.P. doing with Mr. V.V. at... ") that earned her many enemies. Later the scourge of Celluloid City dropped the initials and developed a more serious reportorial approach. In the past few weeks, for example, she has reported on management shake-ups at Screen Gems and the William Morris Agency...
This year the Debate Council deserves a note of congratulations for producing yet another national championship team. Winning the American Forensic Association's National Debate Tournament were Charles E. Garvin '74 of Mather House and Jackson, Miss., and Greg A. Rosenbaum '74 of Quincy House and Toledo, Ohio. Mark G. Arnold, a 1970 graduate of Oberlin College, coached the pair...
...should be enough to say. Except that the proper Gonzo approach to Eastwood--getting off on the savage and appalling vulgarity of it all--may be undermined by the appearance of Jeff Bridges, who has been known to act. One can be assured that Eastwood won't. Don't miss it. At the Savoy...