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...ruling junta in Buenos Aires. As a result of last week's Nobel honors, he is now, irony of ironies, on the payroll of a government he has long opposed. Under an obscure law passed in 1977, probably in the belief that the country's greatest author, Jorge Luis Borges, might win the Nobel Prize for Literature, any living Argentine laureate receives the salary of a supreme court justice, or about $5,000 a month, in addition to the cash award given by the Nobel Foundation. Last week, to the public displeasure of the junta...
Though not one to stand on ceremony, Author Norman Mailer, 57, is planning three: a marriage, a divorce and a marriage, in unceremoniously quick succession. The self-described "champion of obscenity, wise father of six [now eight] children and husband of four battling sweet wives" was recently granted his long-contested divorce from sweet wife No. 4, Beverly Bentley, 50. Now he intends to marry Jazz Singer Carol Stevens, 50, with whom he lived from 1969 to 1974, then divorce her and wed former Model Morris Church, 31, his live-in companion of the past five years...
...dread" and "mood," lies half done: 23 chapters and some scattered notes. Like such unfinished masterpieces as Schubert's Eighth Symphony, Coleridge's Kubla Khan, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, Drood powerfully intrigues readers and writers. Publishers offer Dickens' friend Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone, the privilege of completing Edwin Drood; he declines, but later writes a similar story of duality and the changing tales of good and evil; he calls it Miss or Mrs.? Other attempts are made by lesser authors-and next to the Master what author is not diminished...
DIED. Ladislas Farago, 74, Hungarian-born author of books on espionage and war (The Game of the Foxes, The Broken Seal) who claimed in 1972 that Hitler's ruthless deputy Martin Bormann was alive and posing as a businessman in Argentina; after a brief illness; in New York City...
DIED. Mary O'Hara Alsop, 95, author of the 1941 novel My Friend Flicka, a poignant tale of a friendship between a boy and his horse that became a movie and a television series; of arteriosclerosis; in Chevy Chase, Md. A descendant of William Penn, Alsop published books under the pen name Mary O'Hara, including several that evoked the sweep and grandeur of America's Rocky Mountain states (Thunderhead, Green Grass of Wyoming), a region she came to love while living on a Wyoming ranch with her second husband, Helge Sture-Vasa...