Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mario Puzo is indeed "The Godfather of the Paperback Boom" [Aug. 28]. Who else but the expert novelist could write so much yet so little about something he's never personally experienced? If I could do as much, I too would be a millionaire. Hats off to "Mr...
...Would Mr. Puzo like to tell us what proof he has that "it is a psychological fact that Italians do not give to organized charities"? He can speak only for himself. I can list dozens of men and women of Italian heritage who not only contribute to the Red Cross and other charitable, cultural and educational institutions, but also give generously of their time and talents to every sort of worthwhile endeavor...
...there was some bitter name-calling in Egypt. As far as I am concerned, I didn't reply in kind because I don't think name-calling solves any problems. However, when I meet President Sadat under the sponsorship of President Carter, I will say to him, "Mr. President, at Jerusalem and Ismailia, you told me you are my friend. Then there was a difficult period of relations between us. But I remember your statement, and I reciprocate it in my heart. Therefore, I suggest to you, 'Let us be friends...
...batch of recordings. "Detroit had not traveled much and had made no recordings in well over a decade," says the maestro. "I am the archenemy of that kind of routine." Dorati is an old-school, tremendously versatile conductor whose artistic innovations are matched by his administrative skill. "Mr. Dorati could even run General Motors," says President Robert Semple. That is the ultimate Detroit accolade...
...write a Civil War novel when he was 50. "I got 200 pages down, and it was awful," he recalled. "But the factual parts, where the armies were moving, when the battles were fought, that wasn't bad," He skimmed off the fiction, and the result was Mr. Lincoln's Army, the first of his 13 elegiac, historical summaries that re-create the Civil War in a sweep of colorful detail. Catton also worked as senior editor of the hardbound American Heritage: The Magazine of History...