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Wilkie, 39, is an affable Mississippian with an accent that sounds like marbles rolling around in a pail of Delta mud. A drooping mustache and gray-streaked hair that tumbles over his collar contribute to an aspect somewhere between a Confederate cavalry officer and Catfish Hunter. He began his career with the Clarksdale (Miss.) Press Register (circ. 7,325), got his first taste of national politics-and a highly flattering portrayal in The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Grouse's book about the 1972 campaign-at the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal (circ. 133,000) and hired...
...story began a year ago with an unexpected exit at the Coca-Cola Co., the world's largest soft drink maker (1979 sales: nearly $5 billion). Though he was five years away from retirement age, the company's popular president J. Lucian Smith abruptly quit. A genial Mississippian who died in July at 61 from a heart attack, Smith had reportedly told friends that his job "just wasn't fun any more." Some insiders said that he was forced out as a result of a personality conflict with the firm's aloof chairman and chief executive...
Will's despair can be traced in part to a trick of memory. He realizes suddenly that the hunting accident he was involved in as a young boy was no such thing. His father, a thunderous Mississippian straight out of Faulkner, had vainly tried to kill both Will and himself. A later attempt at suicide succeeded, spurring Will to set out on a path as unlike his father's as possible: "God, just to get away from all that and live an ordinary mild mercantile money-making life, do mild sailing, mild poodle-walking, mild music-loving among...
During its illustrious history, Harper's published the writing of Dickens, Trollope and Twain. In the late 1960s, Editor Willie Morris, a Mississippian who earned his spurs at the Texas Observer, signed up a bunch of literary gunslingers - Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, Larry King - to give the magazine what one critic called "sophistication with a whoop." Morris and his gang walked out in 1971 when Harper's absentee owners objected to that new direction...
...race with a qualifying time of 2:33, Pearson finished 390th overall with a time of 2:40. A veteran marathoner who hasn't missed a day of training since Jan. 10, 1979, Pearson had hoped to run under 2:30 after clocking a 2:36 last year. The Mississippian took it out strong, crossing the ten-mile mark at 55:40, 20 seconds ahead of his projected time. But by the 20-mile mark, the heat began to take its toll, as Pearson found himself three minutes off his desired pace. By that point Pearson said he felt "terrible...