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Other Nieman Fellows include Elinor Brecher of The Louisville [KY] Courier-Journal, Frank Del Olmo of The Los Angeles Times, Robert Hitt III, of The Columbia Record, John MacCormack of the Dallas Times Herald, Dale Maharidge of The Sacramento Bee, Michele McDonald of The Virginian-Pilot, Eileen McNamara May of The Boston Globe, Lindsay Miller, a producer with Public Broadcasting Service, William Sutton, of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Gene Weingarten, of the Miami Herald...
Backtracking from the barbs he had been aiming at Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston last week abandoned his five-month effort to replace the silver-haired West Virginian as the party's Senate floor chief. "The reason I'm withdrawing is that I don't think I have the votes," said Johnston. In January Byrd will reclaim the post of majority leader, which he lost when the G.O.P. took control of the Senate in 1981. Scorned for his untelegenic image, Byrd, 69, beat Johnston's challenge through old-fashioned cloakroom influence. As Johnston...
...care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars." He and his kin are cynical, terse and masters of an amiably menacing tone that echoes the classic response to insult of Owen Wister's The Virginian: "When you call me that, smile...
...hell out of it periodically." Just how big became the concern of Scribners Editor Tom Jenks, 35, who got the job of salvaging a 247-page novel out of 1,500 pages of manuscript. "Editing Hemingway was like wrestling with a god," says the amiable Virginian. What Jenks does not say is that the rules of the game require that the god must look like the winner. The Garden of Eden is, after all, what publicity departments call a publishing event. Interviews and appearances are planned for Jenks. This is a rare career opportunity for a young editor...
...campus. When he is home Robertson usually is awake at sunrise, studies the Bible for an hour, jogs two miles and perhaps takes a ride on one of his four horses before going to his studios. It is a country gentleman's life-style, which befits a blue-blooded Virginian who counts two Presidents, William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison, in the family tree...