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...there is a genius among the storytellers of 1981, it is J. O'Callahan, from Marshfield, Mass., a man of such poetry, wit and elegance that, even in a rugby shirt, he seems Elizabethan. O'Callahan writes his own superb stories. The Herring Shed, told from the point of view of a 14-year-old girl learning the mysteries of her first job in Nova Scotia during the darkest days of World War II, is a minor masterpiece of coming-of-age literature. As she strings up her fish to dry, O'Callahan's young narrator...
Since 1759, when the Wedgwood firm was founded, many people have found it a superb investment. Its backstraps, first applied in the 1760s, first indicated Wedgwood's value as a collector's item. The popularity of the ornamental pieces evolved with changes in taste: the baroque and rococo styles were began to give way in the 18th-century to more classical designs, as a result of the discoveries in both Greece and Italy. Lord Wedgwood himself only collects contemporary pieces. He explains, "I really don't like living in a museum-type atmosphere. All the pieces I have are very...
...program." According to various experts, the new tank illustrates either everything that is right or everything that is wrong with U.S. weapons policy. More likely it illustrates both at once. Though the M-l still has some technical problems, veteran tankers who have driven it say it is a superb machine, better than anything the Soviets can field. The M-l can whip around battlefields at 45 m.p.h., fire accurately on the run while other tanks have to slow down to aim their guns, and can survive a series of direct hits by antitank missiles...
...forget," says Attorney McGowan. Yet Stanford Vice President Joel P. Smith recalls her as "the best dancer I've ever danced with" when he knew her as a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees. She does a nifty two-step and enjoys country music. A superb cook specializing in Mexican dishes, she, along with her husband, is a popular partygiver and -goer. While the prosperous Phoenix lawyer regales guests with Irish jokes told in a brogue, she jumps in to lift stories along, without ever stepping on the punch lines...
...superb historian, McCullough (The Path Between the Seas, The Johnstown Flood) has done his homework on everything affecting Teddy's early life...