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...York, James Atwater, Frank Merrick, Ivan Webster and Gerald Clarke pieced together the cables that flowed in all through the weekend and wrote the cover story and accompanying boxes. The package was researched by Edward Tivnan, Marta Dorion and Allan Hill and edited by Marshall Loeb. "An assassination attempt is more than just bad news or the act of a lunatic," says Loeb. "It raises the problem of how to campaign in our free, open society. And it reins in the ability of our President or presidential candidates to move among their followers and get a 'feel...
...spite of the risks they run, older homosexuals often come out simply to avoid the finally intolerable strain of living a lie. Explained Minnesota State Senator Allan Spear, 38, after he gave a local newspaper a story about his homosexuality last winter: "I felt I was going to be much more comfortable in a situation where I wasn't going to be hiding what I am, enduring gossip behind my back." His heavily liberal constituency took the news calmly and is expected to re-elect him. For Elaine Noble, 31, the first avowed lesbian to be elected to state office...
...last season in its 8 p.m. slot on Saturdays, has been moved to Monday at 9 p.m. Lear has been told that most of last year's episodes were not family fare. Rhoda, scheduled for family time, is feeling the censor's breath. Says Rhoda Executive Producer Allan Burns: "Rhoda and Joe may give the impression that although they are newlyweds, sex is a thing of the past." Another family-time show, M*A*S*H, has for the first time in three years had trouble with the word virgin. CBS censors took it out, saying, "A parent...
...sought refuge hi nonsense. Chesterton found shelter in sense. His immense output (some 150 books and innumerable articles and poems) evidences a long wrangle with madness -the lunacy of the new century and the wildness of the mind. As Jorge Luis Borges observes, "Chesterton restrained himself from being Edgar Allan Poe or Franz Kafka, but something in the makeup of his personality leaned toward the nightmarish; something secret, and blind, and central...
...husband was up in the attic trying to figure out where the old staircase went," explained Catharine Coster of Newtown, Conn. "He pulled layers and layers of wallpaper off the attic walls looking." What Retired Executive Allan Coster eventually discovered was not a secret passage but precious pentimento. Still on the walls, beneath 40 years of papering, was the doodling of Humorist James Thurber, who had lived in the house in the 1930s. There is "no question" that the art work is that of the former New Yorker writer and cartoonist. Says Helen Thurber, the humorist's widow...