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Racing against a November deadline on a play about The New Yorker magazine that he started writing nine years ago, Humorist James Thurber was "midway through the second act for the 28th time" when he got some news: another producer was putting on another playwright's comedy about the same magazine...
...open pavilion, they sat mopping and fanning, and listening to Carmen or Il Trovatore or La Traviata, sung by big voices from the Met. Admission: 90? to $3.50. Between acts, operagoers washed the arias down with beer, munched popcorn and fed ducks and swans on a nearby pond. The 28th season of the Cincinnati Summer Opera had begun...
...purpose of this letter is to correct an erroneous impression given by my March 28th Publisher's Letter on Robert Low, TIME Inc.'s Eastern European Correspondent. Discussing the growing difficulty of reporting the news behind the Balkans' Iron Curtain, the Letter said: "The Curtain is securely fastened now-except for Communist and fellow-traveling foreign journalists ..." This was unjust to the small, hard-working group of U.S., British and other non-Communist foreign correspondents still doing their jobs in the Balkans' Communist countries. Correspondent Low was one of the first to call...
...York Times' William H. Lawrence, now stationed in Washington. Lawrence knows the difficulties confronting a working correspondent in the Balkans, having been refused re-entry to Rumania and Bulgaria a year ago. It was he who took the photograph of Low that ran in my March 28th Letter. Its locale, Slobozia, is in Rumania...
Swedish-born Tage Bolander, who spends much of his time traveling about Europe on TLI business, is concerned, of course, with TIME's Atlantic edition, printed in Paris for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As you may recall from my February 28th Letter, Atlantic is one of TIME's four International editions whose 260,000 weekly copies go to a million readers in 180 countries and possessions overseas. Each carries advertising directed to its particular markets...