John McPhee (left) was at Penn’s Palestra in March 1965 to chronicle the exploits of Princeton’s best player. Two months earlier, a profile McPhee wrote of that senior forward appeared in The New Yorker, his first long article in a magazine for which he has since become a regular contributor. He was doing additional reporting for his first book, published later that year and given the same title as the magazine profile: “A Sense of Where You Are.”
