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...recent sunny Saturday, Vince Seville, 36, assistant professor of engineering at California's Fresno State College, looked up from the breakfast table and said to his wife: "Mom, pack us a lunch. Rusty here needs an outing to pass his Cub Scout test." An hour or so later Vince, Rusty, 8, Sandy...
...staff is kept so busy these days that a hallowed Times institution, the newsroom pinochle game, has been brushed into history. Where once a Times reporter was lucky to get one story a week, he now gets more than he can handle. In the old days, a cub reporter spent his first six weeks writing radio copy for WQXR, the Times's station; today he is likely to go out on a story his first day on the job. "If anything, we overload him," says Rosenthal. "We want to see what...
...mile "march on wheels" through India came 65 members of the Moral Re-Armament Movement. At their head was Rajmohan Gandhi, 28, grandson of the Mahatma. Only 13 when his grandfather was assassinated, the tall, handsome Indian first felt the pull of M.R.A. while in Edinburgh as a cub reporter on the Scotsman. Since then he has been working for the movement in South America, the U.S., Japan and Europe. "Now I am ready to tackle my own country," says he. And would Mahatma approve? "Very much. There is as great an urge for a moral cleanup in this country...
...Harvard Kennedy was interested more in sports than in studies for his first two years. He swam, played football, and was a champion sailor. He was also active in Winthrop House and the Spee Cub and was a member of the CRIMSON...
Strictly speaking, A Kind of Magic begins in 1938 and covers the years of Saratoga Trunk, Giant and Ice Palace. But Author Ferber roams as far back as her days as a $3-a-week cub reporter with the Appleton, Wis., Crescent. Never married, she has had an exuberant, lifelong love affair with "this fantastically rich and spectacular, this gorgeously electric and vital country." Bridgeport and Ashtabula interest her as much as Berlin and Athens, and in a few incisive words she can draw an ineradicable image of a city or a country. "Gray, shrouded, crumbling" Galveston reminds...