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With Willie Randolph at first, Hobson fielded a Thurman Munson sizzler and misfired the ball into centerfield in his haste to turn the double play. Remy then let a Reggie Jackson dribbler squirt through his legs, and the aggressive-running Bombers had tallied twice to close the gap to 6-3. But Jackson was cut down trying to stretch the Remy error into a double, and reliever Bob Stanley fanned Chris Chambliss to quash the rebellion...
...here she is with three members of California's Miss America or Bust Committee: Charles Grebmeier, 37, Cindy Walker, 42, and Charlotte Randolph, 55. Christine is the product. The other three are packagers. All four watch the rerun exactly the way football teams watch movies of last week's game, to note mistakes, to improve performance. Says Christine when the film is over: "It's a good thing I'm getting a new talent gown. That one is too tight in the rear...
Just as his welcome was wearing out in Los Angeles, Mankiewicz was saved by the arrival of another brilliant talker, Orson Welles. The young director suggested a collaboration. The result, a thinly disguised biography of Press Lord William Randolph Hearst, was Citizen Kane. Even before the classic flickered onscreen, Welles and Mank were disputing the writing credits; who contributed what remains a matter of acrimonious debate. After exhaustive research, Meryman convincingly concludes that though the script was a cooperative venture, the controlling interest belongs to Mankiewicz...
Wills starts in Philadelphia. Jefferson rode up alone to substitute for Peyton Randolph in the Virginia delegation to the Continental Congress: "This marginal first appearance of the man is somehow typical. He moved oddly in and out of his own life, keeping a shy but observant distance between himself and his surroundings." For a man doing such heavy work in a forest of intellectual history, Wills keeps a lively eye. Washington and Jefferson were both taller than 6 ft., "but Washington inhabited his height, seemed tall to those who thought Jefferson rather collapsible, all wrists and elbow." Sam Adams possessed...
Currently, Randolph's committee is working on a self-evaluation mandated by the law. Did Harvard do things for disabled students before the law went into effect? Yes, says Randolph, but only on an individual basis. What is Harvard doing now in Washington to facilitate this transition? Lobbying hard to secure federal aid to fund architectural changes that are required in order for the University to comply with the regulations...