Word: lazar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bought the right to video-tape a series of exclusive television interviews with Richard Nixon, who has granted no audiences to the press since he left Washington a year ago. The price: reportedly somewhere between $650,000 and $750,000. Though Nixon's literary agent, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, announced that "Mr. Nixon chose David Frost because of Mr. Frost's unique and wide-ranging experience," it was obvious that the interview rights had simply gone to the highest bidder...
...again," says this source. Nixon has a strong incentive to plunge on: he has received a $350,000 advance payment so far from his publisher (Warner Paperback Library in New York) and will qualify for another such advance when he completes 200 pages. Nixon's agent, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, says the total promised advance is $2.5 million...
Great Stories. Another potential financial-windfall source for Nixon is, of course, the sale of his memoirs. One of the West Coast's top literary agents, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, said that Nixon has signed a contract with him to negotiate with publishers. Lazar, 67, represents such luminaries as Vladimir Nabokov, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Irwin Shaw, Theodore White, Françoise Sagan and Billy Wilder. Lazar expects Nixon to write three volumes. The first will trace his life through his first term as President; the second will cover his foreign policy achievements and contacts with world leaders; the third will deal with...
Feeney met with three NDAG representatives. Edward Lazar, representative of the American Friends Service Committee to the NDAG, said, "Feeney was very cordial, although he couldn't understand the relationship of the draft system to the Vietnam war. We explained to him that the draft makes aggression possible...
...bushes in a Chicago park as they watched a Yippie love festival. From such activities the Army compiled reports that were circulated to base commanders and law-enforcement officials. Some of the information relayed seemed ludicrous. One item warned of impending violence on the "Day of St. Lazar," when...