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...distinguished or infamous--whose interbraided destinies make up the story of The Nightingale's Song (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a tough and fascinating study of war, heroism, politics and the American psyche at a profound cultural divide. The other protagonists: Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter, Oliver North and James Webb...
Neither McCain nor Webb had anything to do with Iran-contra. Webb, another true battlefield hero (Navy Cross, Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts), was no hot dog but rather, in many ways, the smartest and best of the bunch. After the typically bitter homecoming from the war, he forged a career as a novelist, writing the best battlefield novel of Vietnam, Fields of Fire. During the Reagan Administration, he had a brief and stormy tenure as Secretary of the Navy...
Shris Mburu LL.M., Mithra Merryman, Alix Pustilnik, Rebecca Sharbless, Andrew Stanton, Tracy Stone, Melody Webb and Stephen Weisbrod also won Kaufman Fellowships...
...joined the architectural firm of Webb andKnapp in 1948, and has run his own firm, now Pei,Cobb, Freed and Partners, since 1955. He was awheelwright fellow at Harvard...
...could have been musical theater too. But Broadway remained a musty gentlemen's club, tweaking the old formulas, calling on the same aging composers instead of summoning L&S, Randy Newman, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Webb, Jim Steinman and the whole Brill Building contingent. Every once in a while rock turns up onstage as part of an oldies package: Tommy, Leader of the Pack and, in London, compendiums of songs by Buddy Holly, Barry Manilow and ABBA. Smokey Joe's Cafe is one such package, snazzy and tightly wrapped. It's just three decades late. With Leiber and Stoller's help...