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...Pulitzer entries in journalism. In an intensive three days and nights, members of the features jury read the equivalent in words of 30 novels-only to learn that Cooke's story, which had never been submitted to them, had won in their category. An angry chairwoman, Critic Judith Crist, said she would have thrown out the story. But final decisions on Pulitzers reside with the powerful 17-man Advisory Board, a cozy fraternity of journalistic insiders...
...passenger reaction has been generally positive, although Film Critic Judith Crist was annoyed enough to send American Airlines an indignant protest letter. Said she: "I was shocked to be subjected to a commercial disguised as a news feature." But American contends that of some 1.5 million travelers who have seen World on Parade, only twelve have objected to the high-altitude pitches...
Sandy Bates is an idolized comic-turned-director who is cursed by his own gifts. Steamrollered by his staff -- incompetents to the last man, woman and child -- into attending a weekend retrospective of his work (a vicious parody of Judith Crist's Connecticut film weekends), he finds himself incessantly put upon by fans ("I just adore your movies, especially the earlier funnier ones"), groupies, unemployed actors, and other assorted morons who interrupt even his phone calls with requests for photos, autographs, jobs, charity appearances, sex, or a hearing for some stupendously bad idea for a new movie. In addition...
...they declared in a note left in a telephone booth. "We are prepared to take this struggle to its ultimate consequences." The murders, they said, were in retaliation for a police ambush that killed two young leftists in July 1978, and for the death of Angel Rodriguez Cristóbal. An activist, Cristóbal was arrested last May with 20 other protesters for trespassing on Vieques Island, which the Navy uses for bombing and shelling practice and amphibious exercises. Last month he was found dead in his cell at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla. His death was ruled...
Monday night the cast elected Jacqueline Osherow '78 as the new director, Tim G. Atkeson '79, another producer, said yesterday. After Borowitz and Crist withdrew their works on Tuesday, producers and cast met and decided to cancel the show, Atkeson added...