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...correspondent in 1960, he spent a year in Atlanta, then moved to New York City, where he worked in several sections before writing about national affairs. He left TIME in 1963 to join The New Yorker. In 1980 Trillin published the novel Floater, which depicts the journalistic misadventures of Fred Becker, a newsmagazine writer who "floats" from section to section. Among the book's characters are Doc Kennedy, a medicine writer who keeps coming down with the ailments that he writes about, and Woody Fenton, a managing editor who communicates mainly with phrases like "Golly" and "Jumping Jehoshaphat." Alas...
...FRED MALEK...
Wedtech. Again at Wallach's urging, Meese in 1982 provided what McKay called "instrumental" help to Wedtech, a New York City firm, so that it could land a $32 million Government contract. He intervened despite warnings by Fred Fielding, counsel to the President, and Craig Fuller, assistant to the President, that the White House should not get involved in contract awards. McKay, however, found no evidence that Meese got anything of value for his assistance or violated...
There's no question that this team has the talent to win the division, or at least make a serious run for the playoffs. Last year's bumper crop of rookies, the best the Red Sox have had since Jim Rice and Fred Lynn came up together in 1975, has already proved itself as no one-year fluke. And the oft-maligned older veterans aren't playing too badly either...
...Join a Democratic Party policy forum. Georgetown University Professor Madeleine Albright, who has long been advising Dukakis on foreign policy, has seen her international-affairs advisory group more than double in size. Fred Wertheimer, director of Common Cause, spins out the pre-election ploys in a bureaucrat's rendition of rap: "You panel, you travel, you visit, you appear. Most of all, you be there...