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He won his numerals as a goaltender with the freshman lacrosse team in 1952, and lettered as a starter with the 1955 squad. He was editor of the University’s student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun, his senior year. He is specialist in what he calls the word business – the communications business – and his background is so broad and so successful. He has been city editor of a major metropolitan newspaper (The New York Herald Tribune), senior editor of a major national magazine (Newsweek), editor-in-chief of a major national sports magazine (Sport), author of the best-selling sports book of all time (Caesar, a 15-minute profile which appeared on ABC’s 20/20, earned him a national Emmy in 1983, and his coverage of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo earned him critical praise in Sports Illustrated. His recently published book covers both the Sarajevo and the Los Angeles Olympic Games. His 22 books include the biography “R.F.K.;” a study of upper-middle class drug addiction called “Turned On,” plus such acclaimed sports books as “An Illustrated History of the Olympics,” the reference work on the Games. He lives in New York City, for which – during his days in the 1960s as a syndicated newspaper columnist – he invented the nickname “Fun City.”