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Especially so, perhaps, because Carter's acceptance speech Thursday night succeeded, to the extent it did, primarily as a get-them-scared-of-Ronnie exercise. It failed, painfully, to achieve what the President's own staff had said would be its equally essential aim: communicating to all of America a...
By convention's end, Carter seemed to be fretting nervously over the degree of support he would get from Kennedy. In his acceptance speech, he appeared almost to plead for his rival's backing. Kennedy responded with what seemed a notable lack of charity. Though he refrained from criticizing the...
The pulchritude wars began in earnest three years ago, when the longtime dominance of Ford Models, Inc., was challenged by an interloper from Paris. The parvenu, John Casablancas, had owned the biggest model agency in Paris and for years enjoyed an uneasy working relationship with "Godmother" Eileen Ford, trading les...
With real news in short supply, newsmen interviewed each other. One morning Wilkie found himself surrounded by eight reporters, including representatives of the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, all picking his brain about the platform compromises the night before. On another occasion a TV crew spotted...
In 1859, when he was 30, the wealthy Victorian Arthur Munby took upon himself a singular task: the detailed observation of women engaged in manual labor. Until his death in 1910, Munby faithfully made his rounds, traveling to Yorkshire fishing villages, to Welsh coal fields and, on occasion, to France...