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...ingesters praise TT for its salty warmness. However, a significant minority dissent, warning that TT will repeat on you. 1/2 say no preparation is necessary to appreciate TT, but 1/4 report that some experience with Pep-to-Bismol is helpful, though not required. All things considered, more than 1/2 of respondents recommend TT, calling it a thoroughly tolerable introduction to turkey-based entrees...
...victim of this affliction is Willie Morris of Yazoo City, Mississippi. In 1967, a mere 32, he became the youngest editor in chief ever of Harper's magazine. Full of himself and brimming with pep, Morris tried to aerate the old monthly, which was losing about $150,000 a year, by hiring a cadre of hard-drinking cronies that included John Corry, Marshall Frady and Larry L. King. When Morris wasn't schmoozing with the likes of John J. McCloy and Walter Lippmann at the veddy veddy Century Club, you might have found him boozing with other celebs...
...puts the pistol down. (No easy violence here.) The troubled single mother, after being abused by her ex- boyfriend, is so depressed that she can't face a job interview. "You can do anything you want to do," her father urges. "No, I can't," she replies. (No easy pep-talk solutions here.) Yet when she arrives stoned at a family gathering, her relatives overcome their dismay and rally around her. In Laurel Avenue, people may have trouble looking out for themselves, but they look out for one another. Like a family...
Harvard Coach John Dooley, while distressed by these trends, drew on his eternal optimism to deliver upbeat pep talks between periods...
Dateline co-anchor Jane Pauley, who shared the awkward duty of apologizing on air, told the staff in a pep talk the next day that she took "perverse pride" in the readiness to admit failings. But most journalists and, for that matter, most news consumers seemed to agree with former NBC News president Reuven Frank, who said, "This is the worst black eye NBC News has suffered in my experience, which goes back...