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...Ogden ("Brownie"), 29, are banking on selection rather than mass ("More news in less time"), and the drawing power of probably the best collection of columnists of any U.S. paper (Walter Lippmann, Joe and Stewart Alsop, Roscoe Drummond and David Lawrence for brains; Red Smith, John Crosby and Art Buchwald...
Interviewed in Paris by the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald, Author-Artist Ludwig (Father, Dear Father) Bemelmans told about his shrewd idea for luring patrons to a bar he has just opened on the He de la Cite. His plot: "It is my intention to plant some homing pigeons at the [square] in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I''II clip their wings so they can't fly, but will have to walk home. When all the tourists who come to see the cathedral and feed the pigeons start following my birds...
...Highness. Buchwald's amazement is understandable. Since his mother took sick just after he was born, he spent his childhood being shifted back & forth from foster homes to orphan asylums. He had never traveled beyond the New York area until at 16 he ran away, lied about his age and joined the Marines. After 18 months in the Pacific, he was discharged, attended the University of Southern California for three years, then bought a one-way ticket to Europe with his $250 New York State serviceman's bonus. In Paris, he lived on his $75 G.I. Bill allowance...
...Paris, Buchwald sees "anyone who is in the news," has become as much of a celebrity as many of the people he interviews. Once when he complained "how difficult it is to get into the Savoy in a dinner jacket borrowed from a waiter," one of his readers sent him a hand-me-down tuxedo which he still wears ("It's getting a little tight under the arms"). He drops names as easily as he gulps an outsize portion of pâte de foie gras. "We had lunch recently with the . . . Aga Khan," writes Buchwald. "His Highness told...
...Buchwald prefers to interview his subjects in their native habitat, has played a talkative round of golf with Bing Crosby, gone shopping with Zsa Zsa Gabor for a dress. "Interviewing Zsa Zsa in an office would turn out just like an interview with, say, Charlie Wilson," explains Buchwald. Although he is known at nearly every good restaurant in Paris ("My chief vice is eating too much"), he rarely drinks more than a sip of wine, finds that Americans abroad are much more candid and willing to be interviewed than in the U.S. For his popularity, Buchwald pays a heavy price...