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Truman could hardly disagree. He felt, he said later that week, "like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me." Within hours of his swearing in, he had to confront secrets and controversies that as Vice President he had never heard of. He learned that U.S...
There were intriguing new theories and more grim statistics, puzzling observations and enlightening discoveries. "Never before in the history of medicine has so much been learned about an entirely new disease in so short a time," pronounced Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler last week at the opening session...
Like Sugar Ray Leonard against Roberto Duran, Hearns selected masculinity for a style, if the choice was his. "I started out slugging because I had to, it was there," he insists. "Marvin started running in. I had to protect myself." Like Duran, Hearns learned the leaden lesson of moving a...
Jarrell's poems were first published in the mid-1930s, when he was still a student at Vanderbilt University. But it was his ferocious reviews of other poets, particularly in the New Republic and the Nation, that made his name and exacting standards widely known. Deciding that Conrad Aiken had...
Decades later, when he returned as a New York Times correspondent, Malcolm discovered that Canada was more different than ever. In subsequent voyages by car, jet, helicopter and dog sled, he found an immense, diverse continent-country, thinly populated by a talented but strangely self-deprecating people. The sheer size...