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Almost obsessively, Dixon has doomed the protagonist of most of his stories to repeated and often farcical failures in love. Whether named Mac, Jules or Will, he is conspicuously a loser. Speaking with a strikingly distinctive voice, this hapless character is alternately self-pitying and self-mocking, weepily sentimental and stonily sharp-witted. He unceasingly endures abuse, rejection, infidelity, abandonment and most of the other mortifications that can befall a man in the throes of passion...
Directed by W.D. Richter; Screenplay by Earl Mac Rauch...
...other computers by telephone. Worse still, the company had neglected to publish the technical information that would permit professional programmers to write their own software. That did not deter Brothers, an M.I.T.-trained electrical engineer who runs a computer consulting business in Wayland, Mass. He opened up the Mac, studied its circuitry and wrote a program called MacTEP that solved the problem...
...Clearly there are too many magazines," says David Bunnell, publisher of PC World and Mac World, magazines specializing in the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh computers. "I expect 50 more to fold before the year is over." Bunnell is a veteran of this treacherous terrain. One morning in 1982 he walked into his San Francisco offices only to discover that his company had been bought out over the weekend by publishing giant Ziff-Davis...
...warmhearted and valiant Allies. Thousands of English families opened their homes to American servicemen, who responded with equal generosity. Glen Brimblecombe of Ilsington in Devon recalls that as a child "I wanted a bicycle for Christmas. Very selfish, I know now, for Mum could not afford it. Mac, an American sailor from Stover Camp, whom I can still remember, appeared on Christmas morning with a brand-new Elswick bicycle...