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Carew has also settled into the Twin Cities. Last spring he won the Roberto Clemente Award, given annually to the major league player who has done distinguished community service. The honor is bestowed for a player's public acts-heading fund drives and the like. But private and unpublicized...
In contrast, the minor roles are handled with a much greater sense of what Shaw is about. Cynthia Cardon is just right as Prossy, Morell's secretary and admirer, snapping out her consonants, as Shaw once suggested she should, with a "ten pound gun hammer spring." Thomas Champion, as Burgess...
Benjamin Pogrund wonders at this sort of fuss. In Johannesburg, South Africa, at The Rand Daily Mail (where Pogrund works as Associate Editor, third in command), decisions of this type--whether to or how much of a story to run, while trying to avoid a judicial run-in with the...
"Relative values change." The book itself seems to be a compendium of South Sea cliches containing, in addition to the mandatory paean to the Polynesian way of life, a tidal wave, a tropical storm and a run-in with a poisonous stonefish-a great relief to readers who had been...
The pace of a presidential campaign is almost guaranteed to upset stomachs and strain marriages of the men closest to the candidates, and Jimmy Carter's top aides are not immune. They spend weeks away from their homes in the South, crisscrossing the nation and working 18-hour days...