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Author, editor, amateur athlete and semi-pro bachelor, George Plimpton, 40, can whistle up a date with just about any girl including Jacqueline Kennedy. But for this occasion he needed the one perfect woman to witness his return, in a charity softball game, to Yankee Stadium, scene of the personal annihilation he described in Out of My League. So George wooed and won Poetess and Baseball Maniac Marianne Moore, 79, who looked on indulgently as Pitcher Plimpton retired three inept opponents. Once George's tomfoolery was out of the way, though, Diamondologist Moore settled purposefully into the press...
...Paper Lion, Plimpton (8) 10. Disraeli, Blake...
NONFICTION 1. The Death of a President, Manchester (2) 2. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1) 3. Everything But Money, Levenson (3) 4. Madame Sarah, Skinner (4) 5. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (5) 6. Games People Play, Berne (6) 7. Disraeli, Blake (7) 8. Paper Lion, Plimpton (8) 9. Inside South America, Gunther (9) 10. Treblinka, Steiner...
...wants to shut up about Viet Nam but they bug him with it. And there's Charles Addams and David Merrick and maybe a thousand other names all jammed in this Manhattan cellar raising money for the Paris Review, which practically none of them reads but which George Plimpton, 46, edits when he is not sparring with Archie Moore or playing football and writing books like Paper Lion. "Everything George touches turns to gold," says one writer, looking around. "That's why I hate...
...discovered, "is someone who is not trying to protect his image, somebody who lets his interests run a little bit, who can converse. Someone who can put words together easily, who can relate to what's going on"-someone like Lee Marvin, for example, or Gore Vidal, George Plimpton or Greer Garson (who once played a tiny harmonica held between her teeth). Some of the liveliest moments have been provided not by celebrities but by people with unusual interests. Carson had a hilarious workout recently with William Ottley, a sky diver who gave Johnny a lesson...