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...When an American Citizen gets into difficulty in a foreign country," wrote a reader to the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, "they either go to the police, the American embassy or Art Buchwald. I prefer the last." So do some 70 other travelers a week who write to chubby (196 lbs.) young (28) Columnist Art Buchwald seeking his expert advice on everything from what to do when the concierge turns off the heat in a Paris hotel (answer: "Go to another hotel...
...right to take a 15-year-old girl to the Folies-Bergere?" (answer: "Depends on the 15-year-old girl"). But Columnist Buchwald, who was born in suburban Mount Vernon, N.Y., owes his reputation as "the American in Paris" to more than giving out advice...
...column, "Europe's Lighter Side," syndicated to six other U.S. dailies by the New York Herald Tribune, takes the informal measure of a wide range of American travelers abroad from Paul Hoffman, Jim Farley and Henry Ford II to "Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom, Ernest Hemingway and Lana Turner. And Buchwald's lighthearted guidebook, Paris After Dark, which has sold more than 60,000 copies, is one of the best sources of information for Americans on Paris restaurants and night life...
Last week Buchwald, smoking his customary cigar, was engaged in a typically unorthodox piece of legwork for his column. Decked out in fox-hunting pinks and astride a horse, he was uncomfortably riding to the hounds across the rolling greens of Ireland as the guest of Hollywood Director John Huston. In the last five years, he has gone to even greater lengths in the interest of his column. He has bobsledded at St. Moritz, dined at the pasha's palace at Marrakech, French Morocco, and at the Marquis de Cuevas' fancy-dress ball at Biarritz (TIME, Sept...
...Madame Jolie Gabor, 53, glamorous mother of glamorous Eva, Magda and Zsa-Zsa, showed surprise that people make so much about their divorces. "We're four girls, and there have only been eight divorces. Is that so much?" Confided she to the Herald Tribune's Columnist Art Buchwald: "We are never angry with our former husbands. We have always been on wonderful terms with all of them. All of them would remarry us if we wanted them...