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...Editor Christopher Porterfield, then a trainee in TIME'S Washington bureau, was assigned to follow them. Porterfield recalls: "All of them were joking and clowning a lot, but John's humor glinted with a fine, hard intelligence and had a mocking, satirical edge. He also had a sharper way with the language." Porterfield next encountered Lennon in 1968, when he and Paul McCartney were in New York to announce the formation of their own record label, Apple Corps., Ltd. Porterfield, who had written a TIME cover story on the group the year before, was again struck by Lennon...
...dissension among the members of the band: McCartney wanted to get out more and play for the folks, Lennon wanted to work in the recording studio, like an artist with a canvas. The ideological pressures and upheavals of the decade made the four Beatles stand out in even sharper contrast to each other. John became much more political, George more spiritual, Paul seemingly more larky, and Ringo more social. In the more than two years between Sergeant Pepper and Abbey Road, Lennon and McCartney wrote, separately and still (but more tenuously) together, some of their greatest songs (Penny Lane...
Some of the state breakdowns on the current leanings by sex are much sharper -and explain Reagan's need to improve his appeal to women. New York Times-CBS News polls rate Reagan well ahead of Carter among men in Illinois (41% to 30%), but trailing among women (27% to 36%); 26% of the women are undecided. The difference is similar in Texas (Reagan leads 45% to 38% among men, but trails 33% to 42% among women, and 20% of the women are undecided) and Pennsylvania (Reagan leads 39% to 31% among men, trails 30% to 32% among women...
...second wave of commercials, most still being made, will get sharper. "Once you've created a positive base," says Reagan Senior Adviser James Baker, "then you can go on the attack." Last week, the Carter team tested one of its five anti-Reagan ads during a CBS movie. The scene was an empty Oval Office. A voice asked: "When you come right down to it, what kind of person should occupy the Oval Office? Should it be a person who, like Ronald Reagan, has a fractured view of America...
...Bear Bryant is a massive presence, a powerful man, 6 ft. 3½ in., 205 lbs., with sharp eyes and a sharper wit carefully sheathed by a down-home demeanor. His face is seamed and sunbaked from a lifetime on practice-field towers and stadium sidelines. His voice, a rich Southern drawl, is rarely raised; there is seldom any need...