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...delighted by Tomkins' book. A marvel of taste and economy, it manages to convey the originality and grace of the Murphys' life. But one suspects that what Gerald would admire most is the 43-page section of pictures, presented as modestly as a family album-no large format, no color, no glossy paper, every expense spared. The simplicity only enhances the subjects: Picasso preening on La Garoupe; Cole Porter mugging on the Piazza San Marco; Hemingway displaying a day's catch; the Murphys' two small sons, looking the picture of health, gazing at the camera from...
...format was first popularized by Editor Herbert Bayard Swope on the Pulitzers' old New York World in the early 1920s. It is now used by many U.S. papers, which usually fill it with syndicated columns. At the Times, that particular page had for decades been the repository of the obituaries. To begin the new feature, the death notices were banished to the second section, making room for a dizzying diversity of views and opinions that perhaps only the Times, with its great prestige, could bring together. Regular Columnists James Reston, C.L. Sulzberger, Russell Baker and Tom Wicker share...
Although the grape strike is unusual for the length of time over which it was sustained, in its format it is also quite typical of nonviolent activities in America. True, the participants lived the strike daily, refusing to buy or to eat non-union grapes. But the grape strike was never a large part of our lives. It was a popular and highly visible cause which never demanded full-time participation. We could forget about it once we passed the grape counter at the super market...
...operative word for the new Saturday Evening Post, which is back on the nation's newsstands this week as a $1-a-copy quarterly. Antique is more accurate, right down to the custom re-created headline type used by the Post in the 1930s and '40s. In format and much of its content, this is the homey, comfortable, non-controversial old Post of Ben Hibbs, not the later, slicker version which piled up some $500 million in libel suits as a result of its "sophisticated muckraking" and finally perished in 1969 from a combination of advertising atrophy...
...format that has become tiresomely predictable in the hands of others, Dick Cavett at 34 has produced the best mixture of literate repartee, information, entertainment and urbane wit to be found on late-night television. Those who dig good-natured buffoonery and the chitchat of West Coast showfolk go for Competitor Merv Griffin. Viewers who want to see briskly organized quasi-journalistic interviews watch David Frost's excellent syndicated talk show, a two-time Emmy Award winner. Those who tune in Carson do so mainly to watch a consummate comedian scoring off guests who might as well be dummies...