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He partakes of all that is finest in American literature--the sense of nature and of revelation of Emerson and Thoreau, the sharp and pessimistic but compassionate wit of Twain, Lardner, and Marquis, the enthusiasm of Whitman, the highly developed awareness of fantasy and symbolism of Melville, James, and Faulkner...
Last week Buchwald, smoking his customary cigar, was engaged in a typically unorthodox piece of legwork for his column. Decked out in fox-hunting pinks and astride a horse, he was uncomfortably riding to the hounds across the rolling greens of Ireland as the guest of Hollywood Director John Huston...
Before the week was out, Brandt got support for his criticisms from two oddly matched allies. New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, whose paper supported Eisenhower, thought some of the "storm and fury" over Ike's press relations was justified. Though his hatred of Franklin D...
The stories caught other Washington reporters flatfooted. Columnist Marquis Childs appeared in print the same day with: "When the Supreme Court convenes for the fall term, it will be without a Chief Justice." In Washington, where secret meetings with newsmen seldom stay secret long, every reporter soon knew that Brownell...
"You Look Black." All but one of the Pekes were left home last week, but the marquis' ballet dancers were on hand to entertain his guests with a performance of Swan Lake. For a while real swans were considered, but the marquis felt they might fly away inopportunely. To...