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14 picks · 1972–1990

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DEVASTATION
a reporter at large ·

Writer gives an account of a train derailment which killed two people in a suburb of San Bernadino, CA, and caused a subsequent rupture of a fuel pipeline …

Vanished Overnight, But Not Forever
fiction ·

This story begins with a quotation from "People" magazine which tells of the decline of Marguax Hemingway who was finally helped at the Betty Ford clinic. …

Jock is Back
fiction ·

("Dallas" update: For a while recently, it seemed possible that Jock Ewing, family patriarch, presumed dead in a South American plane crash, was alive and …

The Last Mrs. Aspair
fiction ·

Victoria Feldman is at a large dinner party given by her cousin, Sophie Aspair, who is known as the last Mrs. Aspair, although there are others. Sophie was…

I Cover Carter
shouts & murmurs ·

Parody of diary notes from reporter on the 1976 Democratic Convention, the Presidential campaign, the Inauguration, and the beginning of Carter's …

Haute, Haute Couture
our local correspondents ·

George W. S. Trow profiles the former Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, as she prepares a fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, titled “Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design.”

MONEY MUSIC
profiles ·

PROFILE of Kal Rudman, who promotes records & picks hits in the AM-Top-Forty-radio section of the popular-music business. At 42 & a former disc jockey, he …