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...contrast to many accomplished players-turned-managers, Rose is described by his troops as almost always patient and almost never distant. "You know how managers always say, 'I don't care if they like me as long as they respect me?' Well, that ain't my philosophy." He sees talent everywhere. "I was the guy everyone said couldn't do all this stuff, remember? Really, I wish these kids all could go through what I have, but I don't think it's fair to ask every one of them to get 4,000 hits." His principal ally is Coach...
...rare attributes raise The Making of a Public Man beyond the category of benign memoir. One is Linowitz's talent for spare, telling portraits. Among them: Chester Carlson, the arthritic, scholarly patent attorney who, in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, invented the process that made Xerox a name to copy. Linowitz tells how, as the firm's lawyer and later its chairman, he helped Carlson and Joseph Wilson, an impossibly energetic Rochester businessman, launch a product that ended up creating its own demand. The now ubiquitous machine, says Linowitz, "was a case where invention...
...place to select 100 juniors, enrolled full time at four-year U.S. colleges and universities, who have compiled top academic records and excelled in such areas as community service, student government, athletics and the arts. The presidents of 250 colleges and universities have been asked to help conduct the talent hunt on their campuses. To date TIME has received more than 7,000 requests for achievement-awards applications...
...life, Charles Dickens, pressed for money, set off on grueling reading tours in which he became "Dickens," a lecture-hall version of himself. The labor exhausted him and hastened his death. Ernest Hemingway was a splendid man--generous, intelligent, full of curiosity and energy and talent--until sometime in middle age, when he became "Ernest Hemingway," a besotted parody of himself...
...hobnob with journalists at the British embassy, they headed upstairs to their cozy three-room suite to rest up for the gala White House dinner Saturday evening. The swanky soiree for only 79 guests, certainly the hottest ticket in town, was a mixture of glitz and ritz, power and talent. The guests included Actors Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck and John Travolta, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (who was seated at Diana's right), Architect I.M. Pei, Explorer Jacques Cousteau, Artists Helen Frankenthaler and David Hockney, and Nancy's cat pack, Jerry Zipkin and Betsy Bloomingdale. The menu, in keeping with royal preferences...