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Died. Eddie Davis, 53, New York cab driver turned hack writer (his own joke), gagman for Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante. Bob Hope, co-author of brassy Broadway musicals (Ankles Aweigh, Follow the Girls); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Davis' career got up on two wheels when Eddie Cantor happened into his crouched-and-waiting cab in 1928. Davis worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with...
Fifteen-year old Anthony ("writer, artist, translator, hack; gambler, sensualist, fool ... onlooker at his own ruin") spies Christine ("white tennis costume... dove gray fur jacket ... full of fun") in a tea-room, launching 18 years of unrequited love...
They meet again nearly two decades later amid the summer languors of the Riviera. Life has been rough. The adult Anthony is now a "writer, artist, translator, hack; gambler, sensualist, fool," and more importantly, has become an "onlooker at his own ruin." Cursed with a slim annuity adequate for subsistence but not for pleasure, he has slowly lowered himself into squalor "as by a rope." Christiane's failures have paced his own: two unsuccessful marriages (one to a South American millionaire, the other to a German industrialist) and a scandal of a perversity startling even to Paris...
...little talking as possible," said Adlai in Leningrad. "I have to learn as much as I can of the life and work of the Soviet people. It is important for the peace of the world that we understand each other." Besides rubbernecking in the tundra, Stevenson will hack away at a thorny issue: royalties for U.S. authors (including Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan) whose work has been printed in the Soviet Union without compensation...
...will be published in the U.S. this fall. What has irked the puppet Kadar regime more and more in recent months is the "silent strike" of Hungary's unjailed writers, who refuse to raise a pen in salute to the government. Kadar's literary commissar is a hack essayist aptly named George Boloni, who is vainly trying to woo or to coerce the silent strikers. To preserve the illusion of literary activity, the regime reprints old books. Scoffs Journalist Paul Tabori, a longtime exile in Britain: "If they can find a poet of a hundred years...