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...glamorous notions are seldom accurate. Yet for TIME correspondents Jonathan Beaty and Sam Gwynne, who together unearthed and wrote last month's story on the scandal engulfing the Bank of Credit & Commerce International and this week's special report on the B.C.C.I. as well, the reality of chasing the yarn was as thrilling as the best detective fiction...
...surprising pleasures. Characters find themselves reproved by expectation, exiles on all fronts. At their best, his stories have the everyday magic of tall tales overheard at the local tea stall. It is no coincidence, perhaps, that the neighbor who runs away with the Irish fireman's wife in one yarn -- to an ashram in Pondicherry, no less -- goes by the name of Scheherazade...
...when the hopping began, the two aliens, sponsored by animal importer Andy Koffman, managed nothing better than a puny 7-ft. 10-in. leap in the finals -- even though one of them jumped twice. Winner of the spirited annual commemoration of Mark Twain's yarn The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Help Mr. Wizard, a homegrown Concord, Calif., bullfrog who jumped a quite respectable 19 ft. 3 in. The prize for the best alibi went to Koffman, who insisted that his big frogs, accustomed to the equatorial tropics, just got cold feet. Said he: "They're not used...
...that fuss in Lithuania. Readers of the National Enquirer (circ. 4.1 million) and its bitter rival Star magazine (3.6 million) know what the real news is. DOLLY PARTON GETS GIANT NEW BUST IMPLANTS!, shrieked a recent issue of the Star, while the Enquirer offered a must-read yarn headlined ED MCMAHON FLIES INTO RAGE. For 16 years the dueling scandal sheets brought blood-and-guts drama to U.S. supermarket checkout counters. But the publishing pugilism came to an end last week when the owner of the National Enquirer, New York City-based G.P. Group, agreed to buy the Star from...
...papers and books, I can't help but wonder if anyone will miss them. Someday, a researcher may want to look at the working papers of a study on the incidence of poverty in children under five in Peninsular Malaysia. Maybe someone will need the book on the yarn-ball cottage industry in the rural Botswanan economy. Aren't these things important enough to keep around...