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Doris Kearns, associate professor of Government, will wed Richard Goodwin, a political writer and a former top aide to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Sunday at 2 p.m. in a private ceremony at their Lincoln, Mass. home...
Kearns's appointment to a tenured position in the Government Department was held up last spring when she announced plans to revise the manuscript she submitted to the department, co-author it with her lover Richard N. Goodwin and switch to Simon and Schuster as her publisher...
...Wall Street Journal editorial then criticized Harvard for considering Kearns's tenure on the basis of "scholarship she would never publish" and charged that Goodwin's participation would turn Kearns's book into a "polemic...
Died. Rex Todhunter Stout, 88, premier American whodunit writer, whose corpulent orchidologist-detective, Nero Wolfe, with the help of his faithful legman Archie Goodwin, solved crimes in 46 books that were translated into 22 languages and sold more than 45 million copies; at his home in Danbury, Conn. As sinewy and energetic as his protagonist was fat and lethargic, Stout would work out the story line for such mystery novels as The Doorbell Rang and Too Many Cooks while puttering about his daily cooking or gardening chores, then sit down and type out a complete mystery in 38 days...
...Maigret: retired. Martin Beck, Commander Gideon, Inspector West: gone, all gone with the recent deaths of their creators. Of the old breed, only Nero Wolfe is still doing business at the same old stand, his orchidaceous town house in Manhattan, backed and fronted as always by the ineffable Archie Goodwin. Like his corpulent hero, Author Rex Stout, 89, continues to confound the actuarial tables-and his followers. In this latest outing, Stout ups the stakes of the game he plays with readers. Three-quarters of the way through, Narrator Archie realizes the identity of the criminal and concedes, "You probably...