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...best-kept secret of the curious world of American publishing is that this country is in the middle of a modest literary boom. It is not a renaissance; the ages preceding this one have not been shamefully dark. Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius. But there is a gentle swell of hope and good prose...
From Edna Ferber to Vladimir Nabokov, Romain Gary, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, his list of clients reads like the world's best-kept book of unlisted phone numbers. "I call myself a literary agent," says Lazar, "simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents." He also handles composers (Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers), choreographers, etc. For Rodgers, he recently sold The Sound of Music to 20th Century-Fox for $1,250,000, and for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe he peddled Camelot to Warner for the same amount. He had a hand in the $5,500,000 deal...
Jack Kennedy enjoys golf, and has played eight times since his inauguration. But the details of his linksmanship were one of the Administration's best-kept secrets-until last week. Then, for the first time, the President permitted himself to be photographed on a golf course, along with other members of a family foursome that included his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Brothers-in-law Stephen E. Smith and Peter Lawford. Even then, the President declined to pose with a club in his hands, and reporters were allowed to witness only the first teeoff...
...Eisenhower Administration learned in early December of Nikita Khrushchev's intention to release the captive RB-47 flyers when the Kennedy Administration took over. The intelligence was passed along to President-elect Kennedy, was Washington's best-kept top secret until the actual release of the airmen...
Until last week, the best-kept secret in the art auction world was: Who put up the record $770,000 to buy Rubens' Adoration of the Magi through London Dealer Leonard Koetser (TIME, July 6)? The Daily Express offered $1,500 for any clue, after nine months got the tip-off from one of Koetser's former employees...