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...some $34,000 in royalties on his writing (The Cross and the Arrow), and should pay it all to Solzhenitsyn, "an incredible human being, one of the moral giants." Then came two Pulitzer-prizewinning novelists, Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) and Bernard Maiamud (The Fixer), who also announced that they wanted their Russian royalties paid to Solzhenitsyn. But the Soviets do not have any copyright treaties with the West, and they deny any obligation to pay royalties to Americans. Besides, said one top official, Solzhenitsyn doesn't need any help because he is "well...
Alan Bates (The Fixer, Women in Love) is an actor of supreme craftsmanship, but here he is strangely irresolute. The part calls for him to perform a couple of vaudeville turns, imitating the Mitteleuropäischer doctor who first diagnosed the child's brain damage and a batty vicar who tries to help. Bates pushes for the comedy as he does for almost every other emotion, and the strain shows. Miss Suzman, who last appeared as Alexandra in Nicholas and Alexandra, is good when Sheila is tough and tart but bad when she is tender. When she recalls finding...
...Senate and defeated by the voters. Anderson was the first to report that California Republican George Murphy remained on the Technicolor Inc. payroll while serving in the Senate; Murphy lost the next election. The columnist also dug up many of the facts in the case of the late Washington Fixer Nathan Voloshen and Martin Sweig, aide to then House Speaker John McCormack, who used McCormack's office for profitable influence peddling. Voloshen and Sweig were convicted of perjury. More recently Anderson branded Pennsylvania Congressman J. Irving Whalley a "backcountry Bobby Baker," accusing the seven-term Republican of taking kickbacks...
...writer named James Phelan, who had been hired to ghostwrite the story of the man who knows more than anyone else in the world about the life and times of Howard Hughes. He is Noah Dietrich, 83, who for 32 years was Hughes' chief of staff, hatchet man, fixer and right arm. The conclusion emerging from a study of both manuscripts is that much of Irving's book was lifted from Phelan's writings. Irving could have come into possession of the Phelan version, along with 150 pages of the transcript of tape-recorded interviews with Dietrich...
...chief idea man, counselor and fixer for Chairman Mao, Chou is China's chief executive officer. Though his influence is powerful, he is "a builder, not a poet," as Journalist Edgar Snow says. Chou is usually described as a "moderate" or a "pragmatist." But he is also, in all senses of the word, an opportunist. To some of those who knew the patrician Premier when he was starring in student theatricals (once in a female part) in the Teens, he is a skillful dissembler, not to be trusted in any circumstances. But most Westerners who have met Chou would agree...