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...American Spectator (circ. 22,500). In 1966 Founder and Editor R. Emmett Tyr rell Jr., 36, sent Bill Buckley, whom he had never met, a check for $264,000 to pay off National Review's debt. Tyrrell, then 22, was an Indiana University graduate" stu dent with some $27 in the bank. Knowing a well-intentioned hoax when he saw one, an amused Buckley called him up and soon encouraged Tyrrell to convert his small, off-campus conservative newspaper into a witty, sprightly national monthly. The latest issue features Christmas book recommendations from former President Richard Nixon...
...Turn confirms what Starting Over suggested: that Jill Clayburgh is Hollywood's most adorable klutz. Her skinny limbs jut out at odd angles, like folding yardsticks. Her face seems the work of an impish sculptor who added an Emmett Kelly nose to those handsome features. Her hair has declared war on itself. She hunches over her food as if protecting it from invaders, and swallows champagne in one gulp, as if it had an egg in it. She moves like an awkward little girl who in her mid-30s is still Daddy's favorite. She is very dear...
...DIED. Emmett Ashford, 65, first black major league baseball umpire, an ebullient Californian whose booming voice and animated gestures behind the plate delighted the fans at American League games from 1966 to 1970; of a heart attack; in Marina Del Rey, Calif...
...Emmett Williams' "Incidental Music for Yo-Yo Ma"--Ivan Tcherepnin and Yo-Yo Ma; Carpenter Center...
Generations and Continuities: Prints by Emmett Williams--Carpenter Center...