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Imogen Cunningham is ninety-one years old. She lives in San Francisco. For seventy-three years she has made a living taking photographs. "I've lived so long and stayed with photography so long that people are curious about what makes me tick," she has said. "I suppose that by the time most people are my age, they have it made. Maybe it's the lack of money that pushes me along. I've always worked for money, and I've always had fun doing it. People often marvel at me, 'I don't know how you keep so busy...
Even those who are given a clean bill of health will worry about sore throats or other symptoms most people ignore. Some are carrying time bombs that continue to tick away. All they can do is hope to discover and disarm them before they explode...
...product is a massive march of minutiae organized by no other apparent guiding force than chronology. Blotner adheres slavishly to "the inexorable tick of the clock" that Edel urged biographers to avoid at all costs. The chapter headings, "Dec., 1918--September, 1919/September, 1919--June, 1920...," are almost selfparodies of Blotner's conception of biography...
Three of the hottest just-off-the-hot-junior-circuit freshmen swept the giant slalom on Friday. John Macomber of Dartmouth won the race, helping his team to an overall Carnival win. Two Middlebury freshmen swept second and third, just a tick of the timer ahead of Harvard alpine captain Ben Steele. The old lady was at least as respected as fate, so course setter Howard Kelton bypassed the dropoff which led to the NCAA accident last year, but there was no ice to worry the racers this time anyway. The old lady teased everyone with a fabulous 8-inch...
Throughout, Crouse tries to find out what makes them tick--in one man, it is the grim resolve to efface with furious work the memory of the sudden death of wife and children. In another, it is his Pheidippides-like determination to sprint to pay telephones and deliver his story before fainting...