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...contains adhesive-coated strings that will be dragged through Mars' arid soil, then reeled into the container, where any life forms stuck to the strings will be detected. -Died. Marian Young Taylor, 65, known to radio listeners for 32 years as Martha Deane, the relaxed, knowledgeable interview hostess on New York's WOR; of cancer; in Manhattan. A onetime newspaper reporter, Taylor took the professional name of Deane in 1941 and questioned such guests as Dwight Eisenhower, Arnold Toynbee, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and John V. Lindsay...
...conceived and often prey to the worst excesses of the New Journalism's self-indulgent impressionism. As one reader wrote in the letters column several issues back, "I just finished issue no. 2 of New Times and I feel like I've been eating the centers of several Hostess Twinkies. Who needs...
...husband's and her own) has had to learn to repress her reportorial instincts while entertaining official guests. "Obviously, when I'm sitting next to Gromyko, I can't ask him about Soviet Jews," she says. "But when lunch is over, I take off my hostess's hat, pick up my reporter's notebook, go to the press conference and ask him questions." Dignitaries are sometimes startled to see then- dining companion of a few hours earlier interrogating them in public...
...know about girls' schools. Ours anyway. They're really carnivorous, aren't they? Man-eaters. But that's what's wonderful about our girls," says Greene's hostess, a local Demeter, chattily. When she directs him to the college bookstore, he finds it peacefully short on texts and long on stuffed Teddy bears. Later the sight of some dusty relics in the school trophy room gives Greene a shiver. Still he is hardly prepared for the final evening, a candlelit, costumed rally in the chapel. There the frustrated Fox rashly taunts the girls about...
...first novel-the one for which he is remembered-Advise and Consent. That was a blowsy, likable, jump-all-over-you book, about a Senate battle against confirmation of a Secretary of State; about a band of stalwart lawmakers, including one Senator being blackmailed for homosexuality; about a society hostess, and so on. It made a great read. It won Drury the Pulitzer Prize, which he even perhaps deserved: he had had the energy to people a big novel with a lot of boldly drawn characters and keep them moving through incidents and operatic set pieces. Beyond that...