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This week's cover story on the oldest member of the U.S. Congress, Florida Democratic Representative Claude Pepper, 82, was reported by Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey, a veteran political reporter who nonetheless admits to some initial misgivings about the assignment. "When I started interviewing Pepper," says Gorey, "I had in mind the stereotype of the aged: I feared that Pepper would repeat himself, that he would have forgotten things. I thought that I would have to look up dates for everything he talked about. How wrong I was. Pepper can reel off dates, names and long-ago events with...
...appeared on TIME'S cover once before, during his 1938 race in Florida for the Senate, a seat he held until 1951. As he finished his interviews for this week's cover story, the Florida Congressman put his experience as a national figure in perspective. Recalls Gorey: "He looked at me impishly and said, 'I hope you'll be around to report my third TIME cover story-45 years from...
...hybrid: part book, part toy. In The Dwindling Party (Random House; $8.95), Edward Gorey's gothic farce matches the designs of his kidnaping bats and boat-swallowing moats. The very young may not get some of the puns at Hickyacket Hall, but the MacFizzet family, who disappear when the readers pull various tabs, provide hours of amusement even for children who have not yet worked their...
...string of new weapons systems. "Who knows," he says, flashing his famous smile. "Someday I may do it again." As he said at the press conference, "I don't think it's any mystery that I would like to be President." -By Maureen Dowd. Reported by Hays Gorey and Evan Thomas/ Washington
Dean makes repeated references to reporting done by TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey, who assisted him in some interviews and checking. Indeed, several other TIME correspondents extensively pursued the Haig theory before Dean began chasing it in earnest last summer. Their verdict, with which Gorey concurs: the theory is intriguing, but it remains no more than a theory. Dean has no proof...