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...McNab, a Glasgow-born track man who served as script consultant for the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire, makes the marathon seem real as he assembles a memorable cast, including a snake-oil salesman, a determined Scot, an underweight Mexican and such historical folks as Al Capone, members of the Industrial Workers of the World and a handful of Hitler Youth. On the way, Flanagan's Run captures the masochistic ecstasy of long-distance running. No one who runs, walks or just sits in an armchair and reads will fail to cross McNab's taut finish line...
...kind of evanescent being within us. We dream, and the dream is much of the definition of the true self. Last week Lena Home said that she has always imagined herself being a teacher. Norman Vincent Peale says fervently that he wanted to be a salesman-and of course that is, in a sense, what he has always been. Opera Singer Grace Bumbry wants to be a professional race-car driver. Bill Veeck, former owner of the Chicago White Sox, confides the alternate Veeck: a newspaperman. In a "nonfiction short story," Truman Capote wrote that he wanted...
Arcel has frequently referred to Holmes as "the most underrated heavyweight champion in history. He followed that overpowering salesman Muhammad Ali. Gene Tunney beat Jack Dempsey, but Dempsey was still called champ. Ezzard Charles was never forgiven, even by his own people, for beating Louis. It's just time Larry Holmes was recognized as a true and great champion." After all, he has worn the belt for more than four years...
Braniff's end in Dallas came, fittingly, in a driving thunderstorm that had already delayed some takeoffs. Bill Rafter, a salesman from Fort Wayne, Ind., was on the last Braniff flight from Dallas to Kansas City. Said he: "We had waited four hours because of the weather delays, and then we find out that the airline is shutting down." One Dallas couple, Pete and Mary Ann Moxon, had built up enough promotional points by flying Braniff at odd hours to earn a nearly free trip to London. Now, with baby-sitting grandparents already in town from Delaware to free...
...paper, steel, oil drilling and refining, mining and chemicals. Along with union members and the semiskilled, white-collar workers are losing their jobs. Edward Lieberman, 28, was shocked when he could not find work after being laid off from his $20,000-a-year job as a computer-software salesman in Los Angeles. Said he: "I've discovered that I need three years' experience not just a skill...