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...XEROX CORPORATION, selling at 63 1/8 on the New York Stock Exchange, recently paid Harrison Salisbury $40,000 for a long magazine article about America as a public-spirited bicentennial observance. The article appears in this month's Esquire, flanked by two full-page ads ("low keyed," Xerox calls them) that identify Xerox as the sponsor of a journalistic first, a "special in print." There has been a certain amount of fuss about all this, which Salisbury may have anticipated ("A first I thought, gee whiz, should I do this," he said). In the Ellsworth (Maine) Times, E.B. White said...
...that was before the offending Esquire hit the stands. But here it is: turn to page 28 and you see Harrison E. Salisbury, former foreign correspondent and associate editor of The New York Times, in blue jeans and crew-neck sweater, standing earnestly before a gray, American landscape. The article is called simply "Travels Through America," and it begins with a short description of the autumn New England wind, the red-brick factories and the lawns on Route 128. Salisbury starts to tell the story of his great-grandfather's brother, Hiram, who lived around the turn of the 19th...
...lion was cavorting in front of the Heng Touk building, having moved down Beach Street and Harrison Avenue. One of the dancers dangled a head of lettuce, a tangerine, and a red envelope from a pole in front of the lion's face, and in a swooping gesture, it ate them...
Divorced. Rex Harrison, 67, paradigmatic English sophisticate of stage and screen; and his fifth wife, Elizabeth Harris, 39, daughter of Liberal peer Lord Ogmore; in an uncontested proceeding; in London. Harris recently told reporters that "Rex is the only man in the world who would disdainfully send back the wine in his own home...
Peretz says that Harrison wanted to sell the magazine and still have it, that he expected him to be an absentee owner. Peretz says he did not encourage Harrison in that view. While Harrison does not publicly attack Peretz, friends say that he feels betrayed. One source who wishes to remain unknown says Harrison told him that selling The New Republic to Peretz was "the biggest mistake I ever made...