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Stone had a long and distinguished career on the great liberal dailies of the '30's and '40's. He was an editorial writer with Walter Lippmann on The New York Post, a columnist for PM and The New York Daily Compass, and the author of a number of books, including one on the birth of Israel for which he entered the pipeline of illegal Jewish refugees seeking entrance to Palestine and was imprisoned in a British detention camp...
...strength of contemporary America. Penelope drops hints about "heroism and its sexual roots." Finally it is revealed that Ryan's breast-beating is a cover-up for persistent psychosexual anxiety. That is the sort of pop-psych insight that might make an acceptable reply from the agony columnist on a local paper. It emphatically does not do much to hold a play-or a movie-together...
Washington has too many columnists, says Robert J. Donovan of the Los Angeles Times, who could be considered a Washington columnist of sorts himself. But there are not many like Donovan. No pundit, he specializes in writing around the news and stresses a new, people-oriented approach in interviews with the famous, the forgotten and the obscure. His low-key offbeat efforts do not aim for headlines, but the Times is now syndicating them to 200 papers...
Actually Donovan does not consider himself a columnist at all in the conventional sense. "My stuff has no title, no regular schedule, no limitation of any kind-in length, subject or geography. There isn't even a budget. I'm totally free. I simply talk with people. When you read me, you're really reading them." What Donovan does, on the average of twice a week, is seek out "somebody interesting, with something to say that is different and yet relevant -but not a hot news source who is about to go on Meet the Press." After...
...Letrone, proprietor of Chez Sam in Paris, went to Peking to see one of his oldtime customers-Cambodia's exiled ruler, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The prince, Sam wrote to France-Soir Columnist Carmen Tessier, "has a solid appetite. His aunt, a princess, simmers up little dishes. To keep in shape, he plays badminton with Princess Monique and his staff. He still composes songs, and during the Oct. 1 celebrations one could hear his latest work: Nostalgia for China, Which Everyone Knows...