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...tokens or take scrip in change). Some athletic events in public high schools have been canceled or played unannounced because crowds have gone on the rampage at earlier games. "A lot of us-and I was one-kept saying that it couldn't happen here," says Mrs. Tom Wicker, wife of the New York Times columnist. "But it did, and we had to eat our words...
Vereecken has remained in a sterile isolation room at Ghent University Clinic, where for weeks he has been reading, watching TV and doing some wicker work. What is most striking, considering the radical nature of his operation, is that he has been able to get up and walk around his room. His most serious recent complaint has been stomach distress brought on by the heavy doses of drugs that he must take to suppress the immune mechanism by which his system might try to reject the graft. Derom ascribes the long survival of the graft to the unusually good match...
Thursdays were always special. After school, youngsters hitched heavy canvas bags over their shoulders and set out through sycamore-shaded streets. They crisscrossed the broad lawns in front of white frame houses, tossing parcels from their bags up under porch swings and wicker chairs on the wide, front verandas. Then screen doors would squeak and bang, and children would squabble over who would carry them inside. A new issue of the Saturday Evening Post had arrived...
...countless young reporters, would-be lady novelists, daydreaming clerks and other aspiring writers around the country yearned to "make the Post." In the mid-'20s, unsolicited manuscripts poured in at the rate of 2,000 a week, and had to be carted into "readers' " offices in big wicker baskets. Most could be dismissed with a scan of the first few pages, but editors had to watch for glued and upside-down pages farther on -writers' tricks to detect unread pieces...
Punch Sulzberger became publisher in 1963. A year later, he put a New York editor in control of the Washington bureau. Reston told Sulzberger that he could not remain bureau chief under these circumstances; Sulzberger responded by making Reston an associate editor, but allowed him to choose Tom Wicker as his successor. With an "awareness of corporate whimsy, his knowledge of how executive wives can sometimes build the bridges that can more tightly bind their husbands," Reston suggested that the Wickers accompany the Sulzbergers on a month's visit to Europe. According to Talese's rather far-fetched...