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Apparently the Texas textbook critics, Norma and Mel Gabler, and their followers [Dec. 31] believe that by censoring certain words out of dictionaries, the things the words represent will cease to exist. It's a shame that they don't object to the words bigotry, starvation and war. Samuel S. Roseman Newton...
...calls "my abiding obsession with the skills that enable a man or woman to seize and hold the rapt attention of a multitude." His current choices: British Actor Ralph Richardson; Czech-born British Playwright Tom Stoppard; Johnny Carson, board chairman of the American talk show; Comedian and Movie Producer Mel Brooks; and Louise Brooks (no relation), film beauty and sex symbol of the 1920s...
...spotlight; a neatly dressed Midwesterner whose underlying rectitude is beamed to millions of weary nine-to-fivers as a conspiratorial wink indicating that show people may be glamorous, but they are not to be taken seriously Tynan, the great appreciator of rare abilities, can explain the aggressive surrealism of Mel Brooks' ethnic humor, but it does not quite appear to be the Briton's cup of tea. There is a hint of distance in the title of the Brooks piece...
MARRIED. Jessica Savitch, 31, anchorwoman on NBC-TV's weekend Nightly News; and Mel Korn, 50, head of a Philadelphia ad agency; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...