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Proceeding on that assumption, the Copley newspaper chain, in cooperation with the Pentagon, has just published a pictorial digest of major events since 1965. Titled In Brief for the P.O.W., the 24-page magazine tries to bring returning prisoners up to date on the major hard and soft news of the past seven years. On the cover the editors describe the era, rather solemnly, as "historic years. . .when man himself, not just his spirit, escaped the grip of earth to walk in space." The subjects range from moon landings to miniskirts, from the funeral of Winston Churchill to the death...
...York Lawyer John Humes, Ambassador to Austria since October 1969; Leonard K. Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of California; and DeWitt and Lila Wallace, co-chairmen of the Reader's Digest...
...very next image shows him (yes) fondly, unflappably delivering Bette's last child himself in their Iowa house. Sheets of typewritten paper flutter across the screen. They coalesce into the three books that Bach wrote before Jonathan?the first, Stranger to the Ground, fading into a Reader's Digest logo, with "condensed" written under...
...When is a war not a war? A: The fighting in Viet Nam is referred to as an "international armed conflict," according to the Judge Advocate General's Office. ?Army Digest, April...
...sometimes psychedelic approaches. Teichmann's book is an "intimate portrait," so he packs a series of topical chapters ("...The Playwright, The Wit, The Cardplayer...") between two very thin slices of reminiscence. While the reminiscences are very good, the stuff in between would be bad filler for the Reader's Digest. In each chapter Teichman sloppily recounts a few Kaufman anecdotes, comes up with a few obvious generalities and sometimes even tacks on a list of short witticisms. The purpose of this approach is understandable; he is trying all along to give an impression of Kaufman as a great...