Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morgan City...
...tells about a liberal Senator from the South. The poor chap is driven into trying for the presidential nomination by his enigmatic wife ("eyes of the smoky lambent blue that drifts mistily on soft Southern mountains"). Inevitably, the events are recollected by a veteran Washington correspondent, one Richmond P. Morgan ("The Professional," in Wicker's chest-thumping epithet), who got his start covering the Senator's first campaign. Inevitably too, Morgan is now the lover of the Senator's smoky, lambent wife, as well as bureau chief for an unnamed but very important Northern newspaper not easily...
...Morgan offended the pianist-not just because "one of the richest men in the world" came late to a dinner-recital party but because he did not pay a cent to hear Rubinstein play. Arthur was then penniless. What Rubinstein remembers today is the financier's nose...
...suave and polished Derek Bok--dressed in a Brown Perry shirt--wiped the court with Radcliffe's number one player, Meg Morgan, 8-4. The match was living proof of Matina Horner's thesis that women fear success: Morgan's hard and well-placed shots put Bok to shame, but totally psyched out, she threw away her serves and lost...
Radcliffe had no luck in doubles. Stearns and Morgan handed two sets to Bok and Peterson, 6-2, 6-4. Skon and Robertson followed suit, losing to Steiner and Brewer, 6-0, in the first set, and in an amazing comeback, salvaged 10 of their 22 games in the second...