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...began as a somber occasion-the memorial service for Columnist Stewart Alsop, a civilized man who succumbed to leukemia after waging an inspiring fight with his will, his wit and his body (see THE PRESS...
...questioned his right to a Nobel Peace Prize last year for arranging the controversial cease-fire hi Viet Nam (seepage 41), decided last week that "by his tireless diligence and unswerving devotion to the cause of peace, Secretary Kissinger has without question earned the honor now"?although Times Columnist James Reston, among others, had doubts about the propriety of a Secretary of State's being so tied down to a single problem for so long a tune. Mrs. Meir hailed the fact that "children on both sides of the border can sleep well without terror. This is what...
...nearly 40 years Lennie Lyons was Broadway's most cheerful, most benign columnist. He attended openings good and bad. He chatted easily with a cast of public people that included royalty and burlesque comics. Once given the choice between Lyons' 14-hour-a-day schedule or six months in jail, a group of wags-including Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott-unanimously chose the clink...
...night person and predawn writer, turned out six columns (and about 6,000 words) a week. He remained the star-struck son of a Rumanian Jewish immigrant and chucked a law career in 1934 when the New York Post finally bent to years of entreaties and made him a columnist (at $50 a week). His refusal to monger scandal earned him the trust that the famous withheld from more waspish types like Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen. On George Bernard Shaw's 90th birthday, he granted Lyons an exclusive interview. Ernest Hemingway's wife Mary phoned Lyons with...
Eager to talk about his presidency, Richard Nixon last week took the unusual step of inviting Columnist James J. Kilpatrick of the Washington Star-News Syndicate to drop by the Oval Office. A Virginia conservative with a waspish wit, Kilpatrick has supported Nixon for years, although he did admit to feeling "shame, embarrassment, disgust, chagrin" after reading the full text of the White House tapes. The interview turned into a rambling, often self-serving monologue that lasted 80 minutes. The President's main points...