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...Bulldog Buchwald...
Thank you for the hilarious Dec. 30 article, "Summit Simmer." May I suggest that Art Buchwald of the Herald Tribune take over as White House Press Secretary? At least he has a sense of humor, something totally lacking in Ike's little bulldog...
Blanket Coverage. To the New York Herald Tribune's rumpled, rotund Art Buchwald, 32, whose tongue-in-cheeky, Paris-based column (TIME, Sept. 16) is carried by 46 other U.S. papers and the Paris Trib, the portentous triviality of the questions offered an irresistible cue for lampoonery. In a question-and-answer column resembling the transcript of a real-life White House press conference, a presidential spokesman identified only as "Jim" started out by apologizing to reporters for arriving late from the Lido, a Paris cabaret famed for its comely, nude show girls. Getting down to business, Buchwald...
Even more unlikely was genial Jim Hagerty's hopping-mad reaction to the column. Though Buchwald's jest was actually a spoof at the press (which took it as such, and laughed heartily), Press Secretary (and onetime New York Timesman) Hagerty took it as a personal affront, bawled out the Herald Tribune by telephone, barred Columnist Buchwald from all future briefings. Said he later: "I was so mad I could cry. The President read it and laughed. This made me madder. The President said: 'Simmer down, Jim, simmer down.' " Instead, the upsimmering Hagerty swore that...
...shirking his new fame as the wealthiest (at least $700 million) U.S. citizen, reviewed some recently accrued slings and arrows from his outrageous fortune as publicized by FORTUNE. At a private audience in London's Ritz Hotel, Getty told the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Art Buchwald: "The news about being the richest man in America came to me as a surprise. My bankers kept telling me for the last ten years that it was so, but I was hoping I wouldn't be found out. [Now] it looks like I'll have to change...