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DIED. George Ryall, 92, racing columnist known for more than five decades as Audax Minor to readers of The New Yorker; in Columbia, Md. A jaunty, tweedy Canadian, Ryall joined The New Yorker in 1926, the magazine's second year of publication. In addition to his spirited race track reports, Ryall expounded on motor cars, polo and men's fashions. He turned in his last column in December...
Sagan has a history of this sort of dabbling. First swept into the public eye on the coat-tails of the Viking missions to Mars as one of the expedition's moving minds, his impudence, optimism, and imagination, won him national attention. Johnny Carson has toasted him. The New Yorker has profiled him, countless universities have ensnared him as their graduation speaker. He made movies with Francis Ford Coppola, chaired the National Book Awards, and rubbed elbows with celebrities of every ilk. He is, if you will, the shooting star of the astronomical profession...
Shaplen takes an incredibly complex and far-reaching subject and molds it into a simple framework. In each of 11 chapters, he outlines the post-World War Two history of an Asian nation. A longtime writer for The New Yorker, Shaplen's chapters are in-depth articles, examining phases of development within the context of the author's experiences. The author knows his story well, though he explains events and people in almost frustrating detail at times...
...Raised in Richmond, Va., Wolfe spoke softly and courteously, exuding an air of the right stuff. But he wrote like a hit man. "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" was a surprise attack on the genteel New Yorker magazine and its shy, venerated editor, William Shawn. A shocked cultural establishment struck back. An outraged Joseph Alsop and E.B. White called Wolfe's piece brutal, misleading and irresponsible. Richard Goodwin sent a bolt from the White House. "I didn't think I'd survive," says Wolfe...
Katharine White, who died in 1977, was the wife of The New Yorker's redoubtable E.B. White, who has edited and updated her pieces, written between 1958 and 1970, and garlanded Onward and Upward in the Garden with a graceful introduction...