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...tired Haley stalled in the third period, giving away one point that proved decisive in his 6-5 loss. Keough showed more and better moves than Cornell's Tom Sheppard, but made numerous mistakes that Sheppard turned into a third-period 12-10 decision...
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Every year it is the pain and pleasure of Senior Editor Timothy Foote, Associate Editor R. Z. Sheppard, and the other members of the Books section to fight their way upstream through a torrent of titles and find, judge and write about the books that are eventually reviewed in TIME. "There are some 30,000 new titles published every year," says Foote, "but only about 6,000 are actually submitted for possible review." This week Foote and Sheppard collaborated in producing a section devoted entirely to children's books; it includes an article (by Sheppard) on Maurice Sendak...
...reviewing Sendak's version of Grimms' fairy tales Sheppard found them quite different from the majority of children's stories. "Most books published since 1950," he says, "seem to have been written by moonlighting matchbook copywriters and have all the cultural significance of a between-meals snack." After four years with the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, first as a literary editor and then as managing editor of the Book Week supplement, Sheppard joined TIME in 1967. Today he samples as many as 30 books per week before choosing the ones he will review. "This week...
...digest of the life of Aaron Burr when there are sympathetic biographies and Burr's own letters and diaries available? The answer: Most of us will not take the trouble. In the interests of Burrian pragmatism, one must be grateful to Vidal for his history lesson. · R.Z. Sheppard...