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...smiles, Lawyer Stevenson made no measurable progress in the mission that took him behind the Iron Curtain: trying to persuade Soviet officialdom to pay author's royalties to Stevenson clients (including Pearl Buck, John Hersey, Arthur Miller, Upton Sinclair) whose works are published in the Soviet Union. Said Stevenson wanly before heading for Warsaw and points west: "The Minister of Culture is studying the matter further...
Married. John Hersey, 43, author (A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima, The Wall), campaign speech writer for Adlai Stevenson, World War II TIME-LIFE foreign correspondent; and Mrs. Barbara Day Addams Kaufman, 37, first wife of The New Yorker's Cartoonist Charles (Monster Rally, Home Bodies) Addams; he for the second time, she for the third; in Fairfield, Conn...
...making the award, the committee, headed by John Hersey, praised Lyons for providing "a conscience for a whole profession...
Drawing the Maps. Gunther as a book-journalist lacks the originality and profundity of Rebecca (Meaning of Treason) West, the stylistic graces of Negley (Way of a Transgressor) Farson, John (Hiroshima) Hersey or Vincent (Personal History) Sheean. Yet none matches him for sheer scope, reportorial zest, or, most notably, the gift of popularizing remote places and difficult subjects. Says Critic Clifton Fadiman: "Gunther is a born teacher; he doesn't miss a fact-trick. His books are almost too easy to read; because of that, they seem superficial. But he's taught us a hell...
Included among the signers of the statement were authors Cleveland Amory '39, John Hersey, James Jones, and Lewis Mumford. Robert B. Nathan, national ADA chairman, and Norman Thomas, former Socialist nominee for President, were also on the list...