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Think It Over. Described by his clients as "a dehydrated giant" (Playwright Harry Kurnitz) and "a new kind of beach toy" (Novelist Irwin Shaw), little Swifty hides his genius under a pink bald head and behind thick-rimmed glasses. A bachelor, he dates tall, statuesque bachelor girls. He has written a will naming the wives of his favorite clients as the recipients of his considerable fortune...
Working four-week stretches in Hollywood, then zipping off to New York and Europe, he "converges" clients wherever he goes. Next week he leaves for a Swiss skiing colloquium with Irwin Shaw, Peter Viertel, Anatole Litvak, Darryl Zanuck and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He never considers himself on vacation. Once, meeting 20th Century-Fox's Buddy Adler by chance in Paris, Lazar sold him Cole Porter's Can-Can for $750,000. On another occasion, he was saving money by flying tourist class when, looking beyond the partition, he saw Spyros Skouras sitting up forward in Firstville. "I could...
...producing the film version of Irwin Shaw's novel Two Weeks in Another Town and will soon do The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. But his real amusement, risky or not, is the Theater Group at U.C.L.A., which has become so popular that hundreds of people are turned away every night. When Louella Parsons demanded tickets to a recent production, she was turned down. In Hollywood, that is called mother courage...
Plus Politics. Hudson's politics provided another irritant. He encouraged UNICEF collections, delivered lectures on "Christianity and Communism," ("I think people should know what they are combatting") and arranged a testimonial dinner for Irwin Miller, president of the liberal National Council of Churches. He proposed that the congregation offer charity to anti-Castro Cuban refugees who have settled in Indianapolis-only to be asked, "How can we be sure they aren't Communists...
Tanks Face Tanks. Next day, while hundreds of West Berliners watched anxiously, tension mounted. Irwin Firestone. Russian-speaking liaison officer on the staff of the Provost Marshal, moved through Checkpoint Charlie in a blue Taunus, escorted by three Jeeps filled with troops wearing bulletproof vests, while tanks idled their engines at the white line that marked the border. "I hope they are not going to start shooting," said a youthful Vopo. After a five-minute trip, Firestone returned, flashed his headlights in a signal, was again escorted by Jeeps to West Berlin...