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...north shore, which has half a dozen new subdivisions where the clink of cocktail glasses is heard from morning bullshot to evening brandy. At the Tryall estates, west of Montego Bay. an American couple who figure in the international set, Arthur W. Little Jr. and his wife Harriet, last year built a $200,000 home that features a patio made of 100-year-old bricks. Peter Arno nudes in the master bathroom, and zebra skins from an African safari...
Well before these interviews began, Associate Editor Michael Demarest, who was to write the story, and Researcher Harriet Heck had been wading through some of the 25 books these prolific diplomats have written, before sending off the initial queries to the correspondents. Foreign Editor Henry Grunwald worked with them, suggesting ideas to pursue, questions...
...then, one of the evening dailies bestirs itself to launch a crusade, e.g., the World-Telegram's recent series on slum landlords and university-student cheating. But such enterprise is rare. More characteristic is the Post's current serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's famed igth century sermon on the evils of segregation. When Publisher Schiff proposed this Civil War Centennial treat for Post readers, Editor James Wechsler was ecstatic. "Why," said Wechsler, "Uncle Tom emerges as a prototype of Martin Luther King...
...Alexandre, the city's leading hairdresser, received a top-secret letter from the White House with a lock of Jackie's hair enclosed, and a request for his services during the forthcoming visit (see MODERN LIVING). To the Parisian branch of the cosmetician Harriet Hubbard Ayer went another urgent request, mustering out Europe's leading makeup expert, Nathalie, for the duration of the Kennedy trip...
...first. A tough and fearless little man who loves his country and its people, black and white (he is the leader of the Liberal Party in South Africa), Paton does not rank as a major writer. But for his purposes, he may be something even better: a male Harriet Beecher Stowe who avoids both the mawkishness and the melodrama of Uncle Tom's Cabin...