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Durson's book would have been more successful if he had been more critical. His subtle, sarcasm paints a clear picture of the capitalistic nature of pro sports, but he never takes sides. In forcing his reader to find the answers, he avoids the condemnation his data warrants. On his opponents' one yard line, he elects to go for a sure field goal and a tie instead of a risky...
Exactly who is Spiro Theodore Agnew and why is he saying all those terrible things about radic-libs? Jules Witcover, Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, addresses himself to these questions like a good newspaperman: patiently, in detail. His trusting assumption is that if a biographer provides a reader with a politician's record, he is finally giving...
Witcover's interesting failure-the reader gets just about everything but the man-suggests this basic rule for future biographers: Agnew must be understood less as a politician than an improbable culture hero...
Welles is the star, but the walk-on players-from Saroyan to Stravinsky, Hepburn to Hemingway, Cocteau to Kazan-are not bad. Houseman invites the reader to an opening-night party of the cultivated mind, and he is the perfect host. · T.E. Kalem
...Women did everything from demanding to see the Secretary of Labor to letter campaigns; at one point, they (the government) were receiving so many letter they had to hire a full-time letter reader," a WEAL spokesman explained. "Because of the publicity and pressure, women were asked to come in and give comments on the order. There was a very direct result from this pressure...the government never moves until someone puts on pressure...