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...draft pages came to him by the dozens in a blue folder, and he would take them out, unclip his ballpoint pen and write down his own ideas on a yellow legal pad. When the moment of truth approached, the speech was just a dozen double-spaced regular pages...
Albright dashed to the streetcar, flung his long frame on board and beat the courier to the White House, where Legislative Clerk Maurice Latta was also moved by his enthusiasm and promised to slip the bill into the President's night papers and even try to rescue the pen used in signing. A few hours later, Albright picked up a phone and heard the magic words: "The President signed the bill...
Though he is now nearly 96, Albright can recall what he did next. "I went right down to the postal telegraph office and sent Mather a night letter: 'Park Service bill signed nine o'clock last night. Have pen used by President in signing...
...SEVEN members of the stoic CRR Who took so long but didn't go so far The gifts we offer you are only three Objectivity, efficiency, legitimacy. To counsel Marty Michaelson, a most secretive feller We give Milo Minderbinder from the pen of Joe Heller To V.P. O'Brien, a high-yieldin' sock Full of options and bonds and hallucinogen stock To VES's Steve Eagle, a short stay in the slammer And a few new subscriptions--of course, in brown wrappers...
...Africa (Sierra Club; 142 pages; $35), an enticing blend of passages from the memoirs that inspired the film and photographs that powerfully evoke the countryside. Baroness Karen Blixen lived from 1913 to 1931 in the highlands of what is now Kenya, then returned to Denmark, where under the pen name Isak Dinesen she recalled her former home in prose as direct and luminous as the land: "Mombasa has all the look of a picture of Paradise, painted by a small child . . . Once as we turned a corner in the forest, we saw a leopard sitting on the road, a tapestry...