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Although the Maha rashtra government dis tributed a photograph showing Gandhi inaugurating the talent fund, the Prime Minister had not approved the use of her name. Two months ago, she wrote Antulay ordering him to remove her name from the trust. In an impassioned 50-min. speech to the state legislative assembly, Antulay admitted using her name without authorization. His excuse: "I thought I would be able to persuade Mrs. Gandhi to give her permission." But that, he insisted, was his only mistake. He declared that all the money had been used for the public good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Blush Funds | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...frames a long-ago analogy for recent reality. In 1947 a loose confederation of German writers and publishers did as unlike their predecessors 300 earlier. As citizens, they looked on a divided, devastated nation; artists, they found their language by the murderous rhetoric the Nazis. They argued and dis literature and the writer's ability to heal his countrymen. They read manuscripts to each other and decided to convene annually, which they did for the next 20 years. They came to be known as Group 47; Grass joined them in the middle '50s and became the most talented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets in Search of Peace | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...internal demand every expertise known to our history ... I am the most ardent people-watcher who ever lived. I watch them inside me and outside. Past and present can mingle with odd impositions in me ... I lave extremely acute hearing and vision, plus a sense of smell extraordinarily dis criminating ... You cannot hide very much from my senses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A New Turn of the Worm | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...very vulnerable kid." Says Nelson: "He was afraid of large boys. They would threaten him sometimes, and he would do what they said to do." Two other members of the same boys club were Anthony Carter, 9, whose body was discovered last summer, and Joseph Bell, 16, who dis appeared March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: River of Death: Two More Bodies in Atlanta | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...volume can reach $30,000, and novelists like Janet Dailey (80 million copies of 57 novels in print) produce eight books a year for a six-figure income. Experience is not necessary. Bestselling Writers Kathleen Wood-iwiss (The Flame and the Flower) and Jude Deveraux (The Velvet Promise) were dis covered in the "slush pile"- the trade term for unsolicited manuscripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: From Bedroom to Boardroom | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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