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Last week, acting as producer, director, researcher, writer and narrator, Saarinen took her NBC camera team to Concord, Mass., to make a Today-show film on the town's 19th century authors. After poring over encyclopaedias, biographies and the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott, she spent one afternoon tramping around the countryside, across the graveyards and through the centuries-old houses. Then she retreated to her hotel room to write her script and fill the margins with meticulous directions for the cameraman...
Died. Katharine Susan Anthony, 87, bestselling biographer of some of history's more notable women, a onetime Wellesley College geometry teacher and psychiatry buff who enthusiastically delved into such psyches as those of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette and Louisa May Alcott, caused a furor with her 1945 The Lambs, in which she theorized that Essayists Charles and Mary Lamb turned to writing as a sublimation of their incestuous love; following a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...could be the end of a beautiful friendship" with WBZ-TV, one disgruntled fan commented after a projectionist left out the film's middle reel. WBZ filled the remaining time with "The Life of Louisa May Alcott," instead of rounding up the usual suspects again...
...they not died recently, the library would not have Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway. But the American classics, old and new, are there: Emerson, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Henry Adams, Henry James, Mark Twain, O.Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Howells, Fitzgerald-and, should presidential browsers care, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women...
...Reading comprehension is low: the average U.S. twelfth-grader understands only 67% of what he reads in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins, only 28% of Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus. The rate for magazines is 78% for Modern Screen and Silver Screen, 54% for the Saturday Evening Post, 35% for TIME and 28% for the Atlantic...