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Fallows was a Rhodes Scholar and has written for numerous magazines and newspapers. Before taking his position on the Carter staff, he was writing an article for the New Yorker Magazine and a book for Random House...
General Idi Amin Dada of Uganda gives Harvard $1 million for a Department of Ugandan Studies. President Bok names Daniel Patrick Moynihan to administer the department, describing the many-titled New Yorker as "a man who has demonstrated his knowledge of and sympathy for the African people." Amin also receives a special honorary degree...
...yules New Yorker Writer Frank Sullivan saluted friends and celebrities in a full-page poem, nutmegged with his gentle wit and redolent rhymes. The poem failed to appear last year; the sage of Saratoga Springs was too ill to write it. Then, last winter, Sullivan died at the age of 83. But this week's New Yorker does not leave the "season all unbarded and countless friends un-Christmas-carded." The humorist's former editor, noted Parodist Roger Angell, 56, has raised a toast in the master's distinctive style...
Angell eschews, with unjustifiable modesty, comparison with the métier's creator, whom he salutes in a touching envoi: "Farewell, upstate harp of Tamil Vale, Frank, sweet bird of Saratoga . . ." New Yorker Editor William Shawn, however, is pleased. "If Frank Sullivan knew about it, he would be pleased too," says Shawn. Or as Angell concludes, and Sullivan would have: "Peace on each land beneath the sun/ Good friends, God bless us, every...
When a New Yorker editor makes White's "fresh" into "afresh," the author fumes: "My characters will hence forth go afishing, and they will read Afield & Astream. Some of them, perhaps all of them, will be asexual...