Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the outline of the Fitzgerald saga has been on the billboards for decades there is a whole new substrata of events and personalities running through these letters. In February of 1922 Fitzgerald wrote Perkins about Tom Boyd who "runs the book page in The St. Paul Daily News, which he has made the best book page west of the Hudson. Altogether, according to my scrapbook my name has appeared on it over forty times since I came to St. Paul. (These two sentences look funny together! Ha-Ha!" Then three years later Perkins writes Fitzgerald "Tom's book...
...President. By late afternoon, however, the President was ahead, 9 to 7. Even so. the New York Daily News next morning bannered its report of Hughes' flight, with smaller front-page type for Nixon's mission. In a contest between history and fascinating trivia, the serial saga of an aging eccentric (see story, page 18) still has an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination...
...Irving's manuscript. One friend of Irving's com pared McCulloch to "Ahab, going after the white whale, holding on, holding on, like it's his last great moment." Mc-Culloch's latest findings went to Associate Editor Lance Morrow, who has chronicled the Hughes saga from our cover story of Jan. 24 through this week's article. It would be unfair to poach on Morrow's terrain by telling more here. After all, the tale, as Morrow says, "is a detective yarn that has everything...
...gutsy, come-from-behind victory after another. Then, alas, she met Mrs. Billie Jean King, the reigning queen of U.S. tennis. Billie Jean, the first woman athlete in history to win $100,000 in a single year, soundly spanked Chris 6-3, 6-2. For the moment, the Cinderella saga had come...
Justin's saga is, in short, the American dream with an English accent. "I come from a very poor family," he says. "I've had a hard background. But I always knew that I would do something." What else is left to do? At this point, his dream, which is only half in jest, is purely English. Would you believe Dame Twiggy...