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...shift at Smart results from the decision by Terry McDonell, its founding editor, to jump ship from a leaky rowboat to take charge of Esquire, which he likens to "walking onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Eisenhower." The change prompted Smart owner Owen Lipstein to merge his shaky start-up with a proposed rival, Men, and pick up its creators, Peter Kaplan and Chris Kimball, as editor and publishing director. In their vision, everything old is new again: Kaplan says his "new" magazine will attempt to recapture the personality of Esquire circa the 1930s, which he describes...
...steel- fabricating plant operated there for a few years, then went belly up, and now a toxic-waste cleanup putters along in a clutter of rusted metal. Ellsworth Lake is still where it was when my father and I would shove off at first light in a borrowed rowboat, seats slicked by dew, to fish for perch and crappies with bamboo poles and worms. Now a friendly fellow who is launching a $15,000 bass boat, complete with electronic fish-finder, says the water is a funny color near the dead steel factory. But Ellsworth's houses and churches...
Many vacationers--especially the younger crowd--at Padre who explore the island enjoy the go-cart tracks. Those who want a respite from the frenzied activity of the beach--especially the older crowd--can relax in a rowboat off the sound and catch fish...
...building with a wide porch, where storekeeper Bill Ivey is preparing for a dance that night that will bring Mexicans and Americans together as informally as is possible anywhere on the border. There are no Customs and Immigration formalities here; Mexicans simply cross the river in a battered aluminum rowboat to shop, have a beer, go to church or, a couple of times a year, step out at an Ivey dance. By 9 p.m. the beat is lively, and more than 100 people, nearly half from across the river, are kicking up their heels beneath a corrugated-iron roof that...
Horner described the changing relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe as the difference between a seesaw and a rowboat. In the past, relations were like a seesaw, with one side battling the other for equality, but now, Horner said, it was more like a rowboat, with both parties pulling together...