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...LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN, by St. Clair McKelway. The incredible life of Stanley Clifford Weyman, who cracked the upper crust by posing at various times as U.S. Consul General to Algiers, a physician and a French naval officer...
...LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN by St. Clair McKelway. 193 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Weyman's chronicle and the handful of other tales included in the book are all what journalism schools used to call human interest stories. In telling about people, however, St. Clair McKelway scrupulously avoids confusing the knack of self-expression with the act of self-intrusion. He might be called an old-fashioned journalist-if he did not so often manage to sound so refreshingly...
...some of the 14 Advisory Board members. "I thought it was a filthy play," said Chicago Tribune Editor William D. Maxwell, who spends part of his time back home scrubbing books "by dirty-fingered authors" from the Trib's weekly bestseller list. Washington Star Vice President Benjamin McKelway confessed that he rejected the play without having seen it. Safe & Solid. Otherwise, the awards were what many a commentator termed "safe and solid"-and about as controversial as a seed catalogue. Posthumous prizes went to Physician-Poet William Carlos Williams for Pictures from Brueghel and to Novelist William Faulkner...
...There'll be no abrupt change in our outlook," said Noyes at the spacious desk that cautious, pipe-smoking Ben McKelway used to occupy, but some major tinkering is already under way. Noyes is looking for skilled interpretive writers to back up Political Writer Mary McGrory and Pentagon Reporter Richard Fryklund (TIME, April 12). With only one foreign correspondent-Newbold Noyes's Paris-based brother Crosby-the Star cannot hope to match the 14 foreign correspondents who write for the Post, but the new editor plans to develop a team of "regional specialists." To match the Post...