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Norris Blake is a flamboyant turn-of-the-century newspaper correspondent in the Herbert Bayard Swope tradition. Sidney Benson is a modest mid-century schoolteacher clarinetist, separated husband and blocked novelist of the 1960s who floats on nostalgia rather than tradition. Blake is a character in Benson's novel-in-progress. Both are characters in Irvin Faust's fourth novel, Foreign Devils, a typically Faustian fiction that generates considerable warmth by rubbing heroic fantasies against drab realities...
Elizabeth Bishop, L.H.D., poet. Erik Erikson, LL.D., psychoanalyst. Joan S. Erikson, LL.D., author, educator, artist, and wife of Erik Erikson. Paul A. Freund, LL.D., scholar on the Supreme Court. Bayard Rustin, LL.D., civil rights and labor leader...
Walking with friends on Manhattan's notorious 42nd Street at about 11:15 p.m., Bayard Rustin, 61, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and a longtime civil rights leader, was politely stopped by a policeman who asked to examine the cane he was carrying. Rustin complied. SNICK-the cop twisted the handle and out came a sword. Carrying a sword cane is a felony in New York City if the person involved has been previously convicted of a crime. "Of course I've been convicted before," said Rustin. "I served three years in federal prison...
...format was first popularized by Editor Herbert Bayard Swope on the Pulitzers' old New York World in the early 1920s. It is now used by many U.S. papers, which usually fill it with syndicated columns. At the Times, that particular page had for decades been the repository of the obituaries. To begin the new feature, the death notices were banished to the second section, making room for a dizzying diversity of views and opinions that perhaps only the Times, with its great prestige, could bring together. Regular Columnists James Reston, C.L. Sulzberger, Russell Baker and Tom Wicker share...
Large sections of Marihuana Reconsidered are directed to a general, non-scientific audience. A long chapter is devoted to early literary accounts of cannabis intoxication by French writers such as Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Gautier, Bayard Taylor and Fitz Hugh Ludlow. For balance, Alan Ginsberg is given equal billing...