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Still, there was circumstantial evidence that Fischer had penned the diaries. A companion, Edith Lieblang, had complained to friends that he was working "day and night" on a book about Hitler for Stern. In recent years, friends had noticed Fischer on a spending spree, buying, among other items, a house for 700,000 marks ($287,000) in cash...
...comes yet more. Volume X, titled Companion, is a kind of Pepysopedia, ranging from biographical sketches of all the myriad characters to a 25-page essay on Pepys' passion for music. "Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is," he confessed. Volume XI, finally, is an index, bibliography and list of corrections, and with that, this handsomely definitive work is done...
Returning to New York, Tuchman worked for The Nation for two years, then in 1937 left for Spain to do several stories on the Spanish Civil War. On the trip, Tuchman travelled with Hemingway, his female companion and another male journalist. Tuchman grins slightly as she recalls that Hemingway's companion was very annoyed at her because "there were only two staterooms--and it wasn't proper for me to stay in the same room with either...
...concept. No wonder. Given their belief that more is better and most is best, since the late '60s they have tended to lead in gross numbers and would naturally like to see their quantitative advantage frozen. The SALT I Interim Agreement on Offensive Weapons, a five-year companion to the ABM Treaty of 1972, held the U.S. to 1,710 launchers for intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (ICBMs and SLBMs). That was about 700 fewer than the U.S.S.R. already had in place...
...Marcel Marceau, making his first Manhattan appearance since 1975, does not speak. He is Everyman, and his stage is Everywhere. He mimes timeless little stories, occasionally tinged with rueful reflections of contemporary life. He calls a dating service in search of a companion, and is sent a dozen of them, so diversely demanding that he flees his home...