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...York, Chess Master Shelby Lyman mused over his own sudden stardom after acting as host for National Educational Television's coverage of the Reykjavik tournament. Lyman, who until recently lived in a $50-a-month cold-water flat and who earned only about $4,000 for his video stint, figures to make about $100,000 or so this year from books, lectures and personal appearances. Said he happily: "Now a top chess teacher will be able to command what a top psychiatrist gets...
Robert Patterson has always been a reporter of some mystery. In his first stint on the San Francisco Examiner, he wrote a successful column under the pseudonym of Freddie Francisco. Trouble was, his record of past convictions (theft, attempted forgery) came to light, and the elder William Randolph Hearst fired him in 1949. Patterson drifted into ghostwriting and two more prison terms (bad checks, forgery) before the Examiner took him back in 1965. Now 65, he is unemployed again because of a trip to China that possibly never took place...
...view that the word of God must be accompanied by social action. "How dare I go well fed to talk to hungry, unlearned people about the fact that they must be saved," he asks, "and not roll up my sleeves?" During the 1960s, he served a seven-year stint as field secretary for Africa and the West Indies for the British Methodist Missionary Society, and presently he is director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism...
...Kenyon College and an editor of Art News before he joined Newsweek in 1954. Last week, while Lansner talked about "becoming a human being again, even having weekends off," Elliott claimed to welcome his own return to the grind. "It was a long haul," he said of his previous stint as editor, "but now the pressure has cooled, and I'm looking forward to going back in. I guess I'm gung-ho." A former TIME writer who joined Newsweek in 1955, he will not say how long he intends to occupy the editor's office this...
...Carmines began writing his own shows, a few (Peace, In Circles, Promenade) were picked up for commercial runs in off-Broadway theaters, and Carmines won four Obie awards -off-Broadway's equivalent to the Oscar. Now he is turning increasingly to performing. Last January he had a successful stint as pianist-singer in Manhattan's Downstairs at the Upstairs. Carmines insists, though, that he is not tempted to leave the church for full-time show biz. "The two great doctrines of Christianity are salvation and creation," he says. "There has been too much concern with the first...