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...Stanley Meyer, an old friend of Dietrich's and a sometime Hollywood producer, learned that Dietrich was preparing a Hughes book and said he could help find an agent. On the advice of Novelist Irving Wallace (The Prize), Meyer suggested Wallace's agent in New York, Paul Gitlin, who handles other authors such as Harold Robbins. Meyer took the manuscript from Dietrich and channeled it, chapter by chapter, to Gitlin in New York...
That process began in November 1970. Gitlin read the chapters as they came in, and sent word to Dietrich that the book seemed "indifferent and rather average." In January 1971, Gitlin sent the manuscript to Simon & Schuster, which kept it for two weeks. Then in February, says Gitlin, Phelan on his own submitted parts of the book to Look magazine for possible serialization. Phelan denies that he ever approached Look...
Anything Goes. Between the Donadios and the Merediths, the thriving agency business is rich with specialists who represent, in varying degrees, some combination or permutation of the two. Irving Lazar is a Hollywood agent who concentrates almost exclusively on sales to film companies. Attorney Paul Gitlin represents Harold Robbins, among others, as both lawyer and agent...
Died. Irving Gitlin, 49, producer of some of TV's best documentaries; of leukemia; in Manhattan. A onetime CBS newsman (Twentieth Century), Gitlin switched to NBC in 1960 and filmed his White Paper series on such prickly subjects as U.S. welfare policy, civil rights, and 1964's Cuba, an analysis of the Bay of Pigs invasion that won an Emmy...
Although the demonstrators will probably not propose a specific policy for U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, unofficial position papers are being prepared by Todd Gitlin '63 and Christopher Z. Hobson '63. SDS officials hope local college groups will use these to arouse interest and support for the march...