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...several hundred dollars in price; in general, only synagogues and big libraries can afford to have copies. To make it more accessible, Conservative Judaism's United Synagogue of America this week published the first volume of a new paperback translation of the Talmud, edited by Rabbi Arnost Ehrman of Jerusalem's Hebrew University...
Lawrenceville School in New Jersey had double winners: Donald M. Ehrman, now a clinical psychologist in Palo Alto, Calif., and Malcolm S. Forbes, who later published two Ohio newspapers, became associate publisher of the B. C. Forbes & Sons Publish ing Co., N.Y., New Jersey state senator, and in 1953 unsuccessful candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination...
...Lunch. When the Shah and Queen Soraya first arrived in Rome, Ehrman was the only newsman admitted to see them in the airport waiting room; the Italian police took him for an Iranian. Next day Ehrman reserved a lunch table close to the Shah's in the dining room of the Excelsior Hotel, arranged to get telephone bulletins from the A.P.'s office. When the news of Mossadegh's fall came in, Ehrman bounded past the waiters blocking his path, informed the Shah that he was still really in power, was rewarded by the Shah...
After lunch Ehrman dashed out, bought the first editions of the Italian papers and offered to translate them for the Shah. The Shah gratefully accepted, and Ehrman thoughtfully closed the door of the Shah's suite behind him. Later, when other newsmen got in for a press conference, they found Ehrman already there. After the conference, as they raced out to lobby telephones, Ehrman used the Shah's own phone, put in another call to the A.P. bureau with the Shah at his side, dictated his own interview ("His majesty has kindly consented to tell...
Dessert. When the Shah's twin sister Princess Ashraf flew in from Cannes, Ehrman was the only reporter to recognize her in the lobby, bolted over to introduce himself. By then he had been photographed so often with the Shah that the Princess said: "Oh, I recognize you from your pictures." Ehrman got her into a corner for another exclusive chat. Later, when the Shah decided to take 20 newsmen back to Teheran with him, he pointed to Ehrman saying: "The news of the new developments was brought to me by a newspaperman, and from then on, my hours...