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Extinction in a Station Wagon. As an Orthodox Jew, Author Wouk (who now lives in the Virgin Islands during the winter) is not overly sympathetic to the "improvisations" of Reform or Conservative Judaism, and he finds Orthodoxy hale and hearty despite the stringencies of its demands in the world of the barbecue pit and the P.T.A. There has been, he admits, "a well-known cascading-from orthodox to Conservative, and from Conservative to Reform groups. But Reform does not swell as it might, because of attrition into disinterest and loss of identity. Nor, curiously, does orthodoxy seem to diminish...
...terms of an imaginary news tory: "Mr. Abramson left his home in the morning after a hearty breakfast, apparently in the best of health, and was not seen again. His last words were that he would get in a round before going on to the office." Of course, adds Author Wouk. "Mr. Abramson will not die. When his amnesia clears, he will be Mr. Adamson, and his wife and children will join him, and all will be well. But the Jewish question will be over in the United States. If this should happen-and I do not for a moment...
...Honolulu's Royal Hawaiian Hotel there were leis, typewriters, notebooks, cartons of cigarettes and monogrammed matches in each reporter's $2;-a-day room. Everyone also got an hour's interview with Adventure's official author, James (South Pacific) Michener, and a chance to learn that all Michener sold the network were outlines and a few short stories from which other writers would work out segments of Adventure...
Just before he left Hawaii, TV Columnist John Crosby summed up for his freeloading comrades: "The author of Adventures in Paradise doesn't actually write it. The Islands of the Pacific are the setting, except you never see them. The star gets fan mail from a lot of people who have never seen him act." As for Author Michener, said Crosby: "He is the Edna Ferber of the South Pacific...
...Playwriting," says Moss Hart, "like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession." On the face of it, Playwright Hart has little to be humble about. As co-author of such comedy classics as The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take It with You, as librettist of Lady in the Dark and director of My Fair Lady, he will hold top billing in the American popular theater for a long time to come. But he has not had a play of his own on Broadway since the earnest, charming Climate of Eden...