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Hundreds of men and women are responsible for the presentation of TV news, and any selection of an "elite" (in Spiro Agnew's phrase) is necessarily arbitrary. Still, a few men stand out at the top of the profession, including the twelve, some familiar and some not, who are...
The new feminism parallels the black movement in many ways. Both are encumbered, for example, by a huge fifth column-for blacks, the Uncle Toms; for women, Aunt Tabbies, also known as Doris Days. Like the blacks, the feminists too are asking, with some success, that their "hidden history," the...
The 15-year-old Yale freshman wanted to study archaeology, but his father thought engineering was a more promising profession. "I couldn't stand engineering," recalls Caltech's Professor Murray Gell-Mann, the former child prodigy, "so I put down the closest thing, physics." It was a happy...
"Dressing up is a bore," says Hepburn. "At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age." This spareness carries over into her profession. "Addition can make an enormously interesting artist," says Kate...
If Fowles had it as a child, it was the only sign he did have of his future profession. The son of a suburban cigar importer, he went to an English public school. "I enjoyed it, played cricket well and was successful." In fact, he became head boy, "a very...