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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began amassing a collection of memorabilia that now includes four filing cabinets stuffed with 13 years of Rogers' columns and other writings. He decided that Rogers' country wit and wisdom "deserved to be read again." Sterling keys his selections to current headlines, but does not try to edit out now obscure references or names. He believes that the vintage flavor of the columns adds to their basic appeal: "When people read Will Rogers, they realize that much of what we are going through has happened before, that we've already lived through this...
Doris H. Kearns, 31. As a White House Fellow in 1967 she danced with Lyndon Johnson five days before publication of her New Republic article, "How to Remove L.B.J. in 1968." Johnson might have dumped Kearns. Instead, he asked the Harvard government professor to edit his memoirs. She did, writing as well a soon-to-be-released psychohistory of Johnson subtitled "The Tyranny of Benevolence." A graduate of Colby College with a Ph.D. from Harvard, Kearns has her eye on a policymaking position in a future Democratic Administration...
...very first National Security Council staff meeting in 1969. He alone, he told his aides, would deal with newsmen. Roger Morris, a former Kissinger assistant, recalls in an article in the current Columbia Journalism Review that he and his NSC colleagues "were authorized to explore secret negotiations, even to edit the ceaseless outpour of Kissinger's diary. But none of us was trusted to deal with that most sensitive and perilous phenomenon of them all-a journalist...
Some of Wynn's early acquaintances are now Arab leaders: Wynn met Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia, in 1946 when, as a 43-year-old exile in Cairo, Bourguiba brought a piece of anti-French propaganda to be published in a magazine Wynn was helping edit. He first met Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1953, when Sadat was editor-in-chief of the government-owned newspaper Al Gumhurriya...
Died. Philip Rahv, 64, Russian-born literary critic who helped found, in 1934, and edit, until 1969, the leftist literary-political magazine Partisan Review; following a brief illness; in Cambridge, Mass. A professor of English at Brandeis University since 1957, Rahv was the author of three collections of essays, most notably Literature and the Sixth Sense...