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...concentrates on authors reading in their own voices: William Faulkner rushing over the magnificent rhythms of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in a high, fast drawl; Robert Lowell stridently brave in poems about his mental illness; Ernest Hemingway growling Across the River and into the Trees like a Midwestern newsman with too many years at the anchor desk; and John Dos Passes lending The Forty-Second Parallel a hoarse intensity. Like some book publishers, Caedmon has noticed a surprising interest in the short story. Among its new bestsellers are Eudora Welly's warm rendition of Powerhouse and John Cheever...
...presidential jeans were trim, the snakeskin boots glistened in the Sunday sun and the white knit tennis shirt clung flatteringly to Ronald Reagan's chest. As he chatted with a few friends and reporters on the White House's South Lawn, one newsman complimented him on his flat belly. Having a gym so handy in the White House really helped, said Reagan, adding with a proud grin, "Here, feel these triceps." The reporter gingerly tested Reagan's arm. The muscles were firm. Despite his chest wound and nearly nine months in the Oval Office, Reagan...
...E.S.T.-providing an alternative to early-riser Charles Kuralt on CBS. On Friday night, incredulous ABC News staffers were still recovering from the shock waves. Said one: "I do not know why NBC couldn't find a way to accommodate him. He is the most eminent newsman." Many of Brinkley's colleagues at NBC bitterly agreed. Said one News producer: "It's crazy. You just don't throw away your most experienced reporter. Brinkley is the last of the great ones." Acknowledged CBS News President Bill Leonard: "David will be an asset. He's been...
Helms must have done something to please Smith, for a year later the young radio newsman left Raleigh and WRAL for Washington to work on Smith's staff. After a year as an administrative aide, he was detached to help with Georgia Senator Richard Russell's doomed segregationist presidential campaign. A year later, Smith died, and having worked at five jobs in five years, Helms decided to go back home and make a normal life in North Carolina: build a house (a red brick quasi-colonial next door to his father-in-law), join the Rotary Club (chapter president...
...Polk and William McKinley both developed extensive theories about the best way to shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...