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...Marine in the Korean War. His 23-year career with Time Inc. has included posts as TIME'S associate publisher and advertising sales director, as well as the one he will continue to hold as a vice president of the company. A man of modesty and personal warmth who hastens to introduce himself as Jack and talks quietly of doing "the job at hand," Meyers has humanitarian concerns beyond the magazine; among other commitments, he serves as a member of the national board of the Foundation for Children with Learning Disabilities...
...detour via the business world resulted in a 38-year stop-out for me. Iona College's warmth and its programs for those coming in from the cold have enabled me to graduate two weeks after my daughter received her second degree...
...novels and short stories, while statements of traditional morality, explore universal themes within the setting of latter-day America. A master of satire, Cheever most often studies the effects of modern pressures on the contemporary morality of the suburban middle-class, yet he never loses a sense of warmth and compassion toward his subjects. He sharpened his ear for dialogue in years of short-story writing for The New Yorker, among other publications, and has since graduated to novels, including The Wapshot Chronical and last year's impressive best-seller, Falconer...
...spring has still only deigned to drop in on Cambridge a few times. But even those brief visits were enough to give hope to those of us who had begun to believe that non-radiator warmth and the color green were cruel myths invented by unkind Floridians to torture blue-blooded Harvardians. The University pundits accuse students of library-mania, Lamont-lunacy and Widener-warbling, but clearly they have failed to take the weather into account. Student behavior is quite sensible given the fact that undergraduates awake most mornings to grey, white, brown, wind and cold outside, and 90-degree...
...last year underwent hip surgery at Wellington Hospital in London. He limits his duties to seeing of heads of state, although he is consulted on all important decisions. But the day-to-day running the country is in the hands of Fahd, a heavy set man who exudes warmth and good humor. The Crown Prince possesses a diplomatic subtlety that is almost Florentine in its gentility, a talent developed from his many years of dealing with Bedouin tribal chiefs. Though he is urbane and widely traveled, he received a traditional Islamic education. His father, Abdul Aziz, taught him to ride...