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...hooligan ... to the Mayor of Yarmouth about the word bloater in the herring fishery." Once he wrote to the Linnaean Society for help with the word aphis - first used by Linnaeus for green fly; his inquiry made its scholarly rounds until someone in desperation thought to ask the best wordman he knew - Dr. Murray...
...Hemingway's story, compiled from diaries and unpublished letters as well as memory, is often as jumbled as her life with Hemingway. A good deal of the time the author appeared to be running away from his worktable and the fearful knowledge that, increasingly, he was not the wordman he used to be. When all else failed, it seemed, he staged another accident. Broken bones, his and hers, are painfully scattered through the book, from ski spills in Italy to the famous plane crash in Africa in 1954. In the intervals of self-awareness Hemingway described himself...
...that point Prince had acquired the show's two greatest assets, disparate but complementary: Smith and Sondheim, the star of another era and the lyricist of today; the enduring actress and the volatile writer; the svelte woman and the stylish wordman...
Despite all the correspondents who cover the combat, though, South Viet Nam's shooting war has become the particular province of the news photographers and TV cameramen. Says one wordman ungrudgingly: "A lot of guys take chances in covering this dirty, shifting war, but the camera boys take the biggest chances and take them most often." The living (so far) legend of the TV troops is a tough, wiry Vietnamese named Vo Huynh, 35, a native of Hanoi who came south a dozen years ago. He mans a camera for NBC while his brother handles the sound equipment. Since...
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