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Newspaper eras, like political eras, depend on the men who make them. And Harry Romanoff, 73, who retired in June as an editor of Chicago's American after more than 40 years, was quite a man. His reporters tell, for instance, the time in 1966 when Richard Speck was...
FOR MRS. LESSING, those that society has labelled mad are actually those super-perceptive, rare individuals whose natural telepathic and extrasensory powers have not atrophied. Martha, in her role as a letter-day Mrs. Dalloway peering into the crevice that separates two eras, discovers that she shares certain affinities with...
Reasoner, talking about bridges as cam eras frame the Verrazano Narrows span across New York harbor: "Man has made a sewer of the river and spanned it with a poem." Reasoner discussing Americans' fascination with automobile races: "They don't come to see a crash, but if there...
Sir: I enjoyed reading your article on Erasmus [April 25], but I do not think you went all the way when you endeavored to explain the name of my great compatriot. Erasmus' name in fact was Geert Geertsz (Gerard, son of Gerard) and as the humanists liked to translate...
Some of the marvels fashioned by the craftsmen of those eras could be seen last week at Sotheby's in London, where 142 objects from the collection of the late Melvin Gutman went on view (see color). Gutman was a strange man. Son of a Wall Street stockbroker, he...