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...courteously, exuding an air of the right stuff. But he wrote like a hit man. "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" was a surprise attack on the genteel New Yorker magazine and its shy, venerated editor, William Shawn. A shocked cultural establishment struck back. An outraged Joseph Alsop and E.B. White called Wolfe's piece brutal, misleading and irresponsible. Richard Goodwin sent a bolt from the White House. "I didn't think I'd survive," says Wolfe, "but it taught me a lesson...
Both first-games starters--Stewart and Northeastern ace Shawn Brickman--were shaky in the opening innings, as the basepaths looked like Fresh Pond Parkway at rush hour. The Crimson pushed across four runs (enough to win the ballgame, as it turned out) in the first three innings on a Mark Bingham sacrifice fly. RBI singles by Bobby Kelley and Chuck Marshall, and an embarrassing error by Northeastern's hapless third baseman, Kevin Kenny...
...Yorker Editor William Shawn, 71-who eats faithfully at the Algonquin -maintains: "I look at McPhee's profile as a beautifully written literary piece, constructed on facts but still a literary piece." He has "no regrets." Nor does John McPhee. "The only reaction I might have," he says, "would be to the shocks we caused, and wonder over the results...
...Shawn smoked her last cigarette on the way home from school that day. But when a Houston reporter called HEW to ask about the trip to Washington, it turned out that there were problems. After consulting with the Surgeon General's office, HEW stipulated that Shawn would have to stop smoking for six months before she was really in the clear. And she would need written proof. And there were no Government funds to pay for her trip...
...expecting it," Shawn said of HEW. "Most bureaucrats are liars." But Califano did write that he would welcome her to Washington if she can stick by the rules until August. Will she be smoking by then? Said Shawn: "Are you kidding? Nobody will...