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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alex Haley spoke on everything from Malcolm X to a Kirkland House resident's display of the Confederate flag before a capitivated audience of Harvard students and faculty yesterday...
...Ernest Hemingway (1937 and 1954), Andre Malraux (1938 and 1955), William Faulkner (1939 and 1964), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1968 and 1974) and John Updike (1968 and 1982). Eugene O'Neill appeared four times (1924, 1928, 1931 and 1946). Other writers include Russell Baker, John Cheever, Noel Coward, Graham Greene, Alex Haley, John Irving, Jean Kerr, Stephen King, John le Carre, Norman Mailer, Mario Puzo, J.D. Salinger, Neil Simon, Gore Vidal, Rebecca West, Tennessee Williams and Herman Wouk...
...efforts wasted. After two decades of research for his biography of Malcolm X, Bruce Perry, a scholar formerly on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, is eliminating major portions of his book. They include extensive paraphrasings from Malcolm's autobiography -- a work, incidentally, that was written by Alex Haley. Ron Nessen, former presidential press secretary to Gerald Ford, sued the Washingtonian and his ex-wife for $50 million after the magazine ran an article by the former Mrs. Nessen that contained his letters...
...that TV historians may one day call the Age of the Mini-Series began in January 1977. That was when ABC telecast an eight-night adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots and changed the face of television. Roots proved that TV dramas, once confined to neat two-hour blocks, could draw huge audiences when stretched into week-long programming "events." Not all the mini-series that followed Roots were hits, but a few -- Holocaust in 1978, Shogun in 1980, The Thorn Birds in 1983 -- have been among the most watched TV programs ever...
...nerd or an IBM lifer, white shirts are back in style. At Wilkes Bashford, San Francisco's tony clothiers, sales have boomed as executives invest in convenience. "A line of white shirts in the closet is comforting to face when you're in a hurry," observes Salesman Jay Haley. "They go with everything, so you can just pull them out of the closet with no fuss and bam! you're out the door looking good...