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Lovely irony. Like life. An infantry corporal with nine pieces of shrapnel in his back carried on the fight for three years, pressing, retreating, always recovering and trudging wearily ahead, overcoming protesting generals (Air Force Ace Robinson Risner) and multimillionaires (Ross Perot) and politicians (Congressman Phil Crane) and pundits (Columnist Pat Buchanan) and bureaucrats (Secretary of the Interior James Watt...
...ancient Pleistocene call of the moon, of salt in the blood, and genetic encoding buried deep in the chromosomes back there beneath the layers of culture?and counterculture?are making successful businesswomen, professionals and even the mothers of grown children stop and reconsider. Says Pulitzer-prizewinning Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman: "You find women who have believed work is the end-all and beall. But after eight years, they say, just like the housewives, 'Is this all there is?' " Washington Child Psychologist Carlotta Miles sees the shift toward mature motherhood as a very positive step. Says she: "Women no longer...
Amanda ("Binky") Urban, 35, like many new mothers-to-be, will not sit home calculating her lost wages. Now more than four months pregnant, the vivacious and well-connected literary agent guides clients through the predatory shoals of New York publishing. Urban moved herself and writer-columnist Husband Ken Auletta, 39, to a larger and more expensive Manhattan apartment in preparation for the new child. The Aulettas exude a confident, plugged-in affluence. Theirs is a life many people would envy. Why would they turn it upside down for a newborn infant? Urban voices the generosity of many older, first...
...Dewey Spangler, a top-flight newspaper columnist a la Alsop who wields more power than any single senator, a boyhood chum of Corde's who turns up on swing through Eastern Europe. As a kid, Spangler was inebriated with Swinburne, Wilde, Nietzsche. Now he is slick, in analysis, still a bit cowed by Corde, and at the same time vindictive...
DIED. Walter ("Red") Smith, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist whose wry wit and pursuit of what he called "the pure crystal stream of the declarative sentence" made him the most influential and admired sportswriter of our time; in Stamford, Conn. Smith, in the great line of such sportswriter-debunkers as Ring Lardner, Westbrook Pegler and Damon Runyon, kept his subjects at arm's length. "These are still games little boys play," he said. "The future of civilization is not at stake." He gave a strong hint of what was to become his skewed, lifelong approach to a story...