An intriguing tidbit in our colleague Rich Leiby’s profile of Washington private eye Terry Lenzner. Seems that he was the inspiration for Oliver Barrett IV, the Harvard ice-hockey player at the center of his friend Erich Segal’s weepy romantic novel “Love Story.” Or, at least, one of them. Consider: Lenzner, now 74, grew up with a wealthy, domineering father who pushed him to excel in prep-school sports and the Ivy League; he went to Exeter and Harvard, where he played football — and became good friends with Segal, then a tutor. Segal went on to write “Love Story,” which was...
