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...good to be just a fluke, too tender to pass completely for the street-wise character she likes to play in her songs, too unexpected and far too unlikely to be a product of some commercial calculation. Jones' sound, respect, gracefully oldtime, never turns antique. She likes Van Morrison, Marvin Gaye and Laura Nyro, but she also talks of Peggy Lee and Sarah Vaughan with respect, performs a stops-out version of an old Louis Prima tune to close out her concerts. Her songs have their origins in, and owe a friendly debt to, the work of such...
...leader of the Boston Pops. More, Fiedler scarcely five months earlier had undergone massive brain surgery. The years and fears showed mainly in the fit of his bib: Fiedler ill had lost so much weight that Wife Ellen insisted on smaller tails from Brooks Brothers. Otherwise, things Pops-wise were the same, including a familiar hand-clapping, balloon-rising Stars and Stripes Forever finale...
...sheltered ivy-covered buildings, lies Reality, in the shape of "Questionable" donors and unethical corporations, inflation and money worries. And heroically balancing all three, taking the heat from the id, the guilt trip from the superego, the pressure and threats of reality, are Bok and his assistant wise-men, valiantly trying to do the best they can for the interests of the University...
...first woman in the club. She emerges from the shadows of the past two years as the President's most trusted, wise, durable and important adviser in virtually every phase of his stewardship. "She is the first First Lady I have known who is a true adviser to the President on almost every issue," says a White House veteran who has known them all back to Eleanor Roosevelt. Adds a former White House man: "She has more impact on policy than any other President's wife in this generation. She knows what is going...
Reports of the outsize rewards are enough to make many an inflation-straitened American sing along with angry Paycheck. But before everybody gets upset, let alone envious, it might be wise to put the large numbers in perspective. Though nobody has to pass a collection cup for the fellows who reach the top of corporate America's greasy pole, those who make big money as hired managers are a small minority. Down in the trenches, which is anywhere below the senior vice president level, the rewards are moderate and uncertain. A lot of bank vice presidents and middle managers...