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Arthur Goldberg, 52. Goldberg is skilled at the Cuban dice game of carabino, a collector, in a modest way, of the works of Picasso, Matisse and Shahn, a gluttonous reader of books of all kinds, and a loyal fan of the Washington Redskins. He is also the leading labor lawyer in the U.S., a man who has had a major voice in every significant labor-management decision of the past decade, but who has never been a legitimate member of a labor union. As Secretary of Labor, he may have to make some difficult decisions, such as enforcing Taft-Hartley...
...Canadian magazines' story is that they are fast failing financially at the hands of U.S. publications that, entering Canada with an editorial product already paid for by their U.S. circulation, enjoy an unfair edge in the race for Canadian readers and revenues. The plaint is a familiar one. In 1957 a Liberal government zeroed in on Canadian editions of U.S. magazines (principally TIME and Reader's Digest), imposed a 20% tax on their Canadian advertising revenues. Diefenbakers Tories denounced the tax as discriminatory and as an interference with freedom of the press. Since the tax also failed...
...swung Susan behind him and united them both in battling the world. Her first battle: boarding school, which she hated. Joseph Conrad's aristocratic Polish father was exiled to a remote part of Russia for revolutionary agitation against the Czar, made a meager living translating literature. A hungry reader from the age of five, the lonely boy was schooled largely by helping his father. Orphaned at eleven, he was sent to school, but soon escaped to sea, to England and to literature...
...then, on the other hand, why look a gift bear in the mouth? With the holiday season at hand, the book suggests some redoubtable opportunities for Christmasmanship-what better gift for the child who has everything? And for just any old reader with two years of Latin somewhere in his past and Junior's copy of Winnie-the-Pooh in his other hand, the Lenard translation will readily provide a week or so of verbal fun and fireside games-a contribution to nursery literature that can only be compared to E. L. Kerney's translation of Alice...
...Morphy's shade wavers through a series of chess triumphs (actual) and a career as a Confederate agent in Paris (imagined), the reader notices a few things about the Keyes technique. There are no purple patches-only grey ones- and there are no onstage sword fights or seductions. Novelist Keyes's strong point is research, and where Frank Yerby or Taylor Caldwell might liven the soggy chapter by unhooking the heroine's bodice, Morphy's chronicler merely recreates a chess game. While it is open to question how much the author knows about chess, the royal...