Word: normans
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...neurosurgeon phoned Palo Alto, and White soon got a call from Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr., pioneering head of Stanford's cardiovascular unit, a fellow resident with Cape Town's Dr. Barnard at the University of Minnesota and the developer of the heart-transplant technique first used by Barnard. Shumway asked about a possible transplant. White talked it over with his children, Judith, 18, and Richard, 12. He also consulted Virginia's mother. They all said...
MAKING IT by Norman Podhoretz. 360 pages. Random House...
...most outward respects, Norman Podhoretz, the 38-year-old literary critic, social commentator and editor of the highbrow monthly Commentary, fits a familiar pattern. Brainy son of Jewish European immigrants, his ambition fired by memories of a boyhood spent in the Brooklyn slums, he worked his way up from smartest kid in the class to a position of influence and prestige in New York intellectual circles...
Several people are writing up their trips: Sir Francis Chichester his sea adventures, Murray Kempton his sojourn in several American cities, Dan Wakefield a lengthy odyssey taken to find out what Americans think of Viet Nam, Norman Mailer's views of last October's protest march to the Pentagon...
...name of Beauty Beast. Stephen Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe a collection of essays and a report on Novelist Ken Kesey, the Norman Mailer of the West Coast. But all this conspicuous industry settles into sloth when compared with Mystery Writer John Creasey's publishing schedule for the year: 15 books under four different names...