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Marshall Field V, 33, was only two years out of Harvard when his father died and left him heir to Field Enterprises, Inc., one of the nation's largest publishers (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Daily News, World Book Encyclopedia). He spent the next five years training to fill his father's shoes-and earning a considerable reputation as a bon vivant. A moderate with occasionally liberal political views, Field has grown into a tough...
James F. Hoge Jr.,38. The editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, seventh largest U.S. morning newspaper (circ. 569,000), started as a police reporter after graduating from Yale, then was a White House correspondent before becoming assistant city editor in 1964. Son of a wealthy New York City lawyer, he became editor in 1968, has brightened layouts, emphasized investigative reporting and broadened coverage of the underprivileged. A handsome bachelor-about-town since his divorce from Alice Patterson Albright, whose family of Medills and Pattersons made newspaper history with their Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and the late Washington...
...Starts Sun.: On the Waterfront, 6:10, 9:55 and Angels With Dirty Faces...
...work on seven more books. He is also teaching at the U.C. Medical Center in San Francisco, lecturing, traveling and organizing symposia on the nature of consciousness. A bachelor, he tools around in a hot orange Porsche 914 and lives on a Los Altos mini-estate complete with sun deck and swimming pool. He takes no time out for meditation. "I'm not convinced it's good for you, or more personally, that it's good for me," he says. He is far more interested in pursuing his electronic studies of brain activity, the kind of work...
Equally good as satires of scientific logic are an essay that postulates the existence of the Infinite Zipper and another that proves heaven is actually hotter than hell. The reasoning goes like this: heaven, which the Bible says receives 49 times as much radiation from the sun as the earth does (Isaiah 30:26), would therefore have a temperature of 525° C. Hell, where the main topographical feature is a lake of molten brimstone (Revelation 21:8), could have a temperature of no more, no less, than 444.6° C. Above that temperature, the brimstone would vaporize; much below...