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...drills which include heading the ball continuously for the full length of the penalty area, bouncing it on their thighs while running, and then chipping it with their heels well enough to make any reporter who has said that they do not possess individual ball handling skills eat his pencil...
Finally, in this thriving tourist area, is the Chisholm Trail Souvenir Shop. Here in "Kansas's Largest Souvenir Shop," I counted 94 kinds of things marked Eisenhower Center and/or Abilene, Kansas. Pillow covers, pencil sets, and toy cars were not surprises. Toothpick holders and babies training pants were...
...melodrama is marked by lavish skill at doing what novelists always need to do-write scenes, weave narrative threads, hatch and construct characters, see and smell and feel and describe. Good sentence piles upon good sentence until the novel sags and cracks. What it sorely needs is a blue pencil and an artistic point of view...
Currently, the biggest name in the business is also the newest: Doug Henning. Dressed like a counterculture urchin, the possessor of a small voice and a stature that makes a pencil appear mesomorphic, Henning has proved that the magic boom is bankable-his show grosses some $60,000 per week. At 17, too young to perform in the nightclubs of his native Winnipeg, he flew to Barbados, where he acquired a motorcycle and a sign: MAGICIAN. HAVE RABBIT, WILL TRAVEL. He roamed the island, picking up work as he went. Seven years later, after earning a degree in psychology...
...senior editor of the Press section, Laurence I. Barrett, put aside his editing pencil to write the cover story, his 26th since joining TIME in 1965. For him, it represents a return to his earliest professional concerns. After graduation from New York University and the Columbia School of Journalism, Barrett went to the New York Herald Tribune as a political reporter in 1958. He wrote a weekly column on New York's city hall (accumulating grist for his 1965 novel, The Mayor of New York), then moved to Washington to cover the Pentagon and national politics. When the Trib...