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Change is a delight in the middle years. Columnist Art Buchwald, 40, pulled up stakes in Paris as the celebrity's celebrity, relocated himself in Washington, D.C., and mined it for satire. Astronaut John Glenn, 45, is a vice president of Royal Crown Cola. Sometimes the change is an allout risk. Maxwell Wihnyk, 54, was running a mildly profitable newspaper in Beaumont, Calif., five years ago, but there was no joy in it. With a wife and three dependent children, he decided to go to law school. Says he: "You can scare the hell out of yourself living...
...inevitable rumors started. Could the Trib survive the strike? New York's Mayor Lindsay assured a reporter that he had considerable doubt; Trib employees in New York and Washington echoed his concern by looking for other jobs. The word was that Columnists Walter Lippmann and Art Buchwald, anxious to hang on to a New York outlet, would sign on with the Times...
...loudest and most lasting controversy of the entire poverty program. City governments, bitterly resentful of any encroachment on their own powers, object that the poor are hardly qualified to dispense millions in anti-poverty funds. "Asking the poor how to win the war on poverty," cracked Columnist Art Buchwald, "is like asking the Japs how to win World...
...many in an age of constant change, the best place to find subjects for humor is in the news, and contemporary humor reflects a growing dependence on current events. The best humorous columnists-Art Buchwald and Russell Baker-naturally look to the news for their subjects, but so do more and more comics. "People are a lot more hip about humor today," says Bob Hope. "People like their comedians to be current. We have to do the things they're reading about. De Gaulle, for example. One man against the world-he's jealous of the American...
...problems of satire is that, to many humorists, the world itself is a large balloon full of wind, a satire on itself. "The world is getting so crazy you just have to laugh," says Art Buchwald, who lists some recent examples of self-satire: Lyndon Johnson showing his scar, Premier Ky and his wife in their Captain and Mrs. Midnight flight suits, the Ecumenical Council debating whether the Jews really killed Christ. There is surprisingly little political satire of Lyndon Johnson. The reason, believes Playwright-Director George Abbott, is that "humor is exaggeration, and President Johnson is his own exaggeration...