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...special case. And all the others are villages." London's pressures are less than in many big cities, and it manages to maintain an ease, a coziness and a mixture of its different social circles that totally eludes New York. The result, as Manhattan-born Richard Adler, editor of London's Town Magazine, puts it, is that London is "far more accessible than anywhere else. In New York, Paris and Rome, actors, writers and so on each have their own little groups, their little street packs. If you put your toe in the wrong square, you get stepped...
Died. Rabbi Morris Adler, 59, head of Detroit's Shaaray Zedek Synagogue and a leader of U.S. Conservative Judaism, who during a service last month was shot by a deranged student (who then killed himself); after four weeks in a coma; in Detroit...
Although one or another of his five publishers is forever describing him as a well-known writer, Bill Adler disagrees. "I consider myself a professional thinker," he says briskly, "and there aren't very many...
...many, at least, like Adler, who used to be an adman (Kenyon & Eckhardt) and magazine editor (McCall's) before he began to think professionally. Since 1961, when he went around to his friends and gathered up their kids' funny letters for a volume called Letters from Camp, Adler has become the acknowledged "king of nonbooks." His 25 volumes (eight published in 1965 alone) have sold more than 2,000,000 copies and have brought him about $250,000 in royalties and guarantees. The Kennedy Wit alone sold 110,000 copies in hard cover and nearly...
...Stevenson Wit, which Adler thought up shortly before Adlai Stevenson died, reminds readers that Stevenson was a singularly lighthearted and amusing man. There is, for example, his rallying call during the 1952 presidential campaign: "Eggheads unite-you have nothing to lose but your yolks!" Not to mention his wry crack after the election: "When I was a boy, I was told that anyone could be President, and I believed it." Or the comment he made in 1960 when he was caught in a traffic jam at the Washington airport as Charles de Gaulle arrived: "It seems my fate is always...