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Kennedy's own performance was as unpredictable as his audiences. Often, when his political antennae sensed the mood of his listeners, he threw away his carefully prepared texts (to the despair of such highcaliber, hard-working speechwriters as Dick Goodwin, Ted Sorensen and John Bartlow Martin) and launched into impromptu speeches with an eloquence and fervor that reminded middle-aged listeners of the young F.D.R., and touched off wild ovations. Again, he plodded through his speeches as unenthusiastically as his listeners responded to them. Under the direction of Voice Coach Blair McClosky, the Kennedy voice was usually well modulated...
...solidly researched series on desegregation problems in the Saturday Evening Post, Freelance Newsman John Bartlow Martin, 42, last week won the University of Illinois' Benjamin Franklin Magazine Award "for distinguished writing, involving original reporting in which serious obstacles had to be overcome." It was his fourth Franklin Award in five years-a record unmatched by any other writer...
...Reporter John Bartlow Martin, 39, who lives in Chicago, started writing at i/ to 2? a word for pulp crime and detective magazines, graduated to Harper's, which averages $250 to $350 a piece, and finally also began selling to Satevepost and other slick magazines. Says he: "I like every thing about freelancing, with the exception of the lack of security. Sometimes it's four to six months between checks, and that creates problems for my grocer and everybody else." One writer who no longer worries about the grocery bills is Frank J. Taylor, 60, dean...