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Over at ABC, the day was equally nascent when Correspondent Janice Simpson interviewed Good Morning America's David Hartman. For a box that accompanies the story, Correspondent Mary Cronin tracked Hartman through a day in the life of a morning-show host, an ordeal that begins at 3:45 a.m. Cronin also interviewed Host Tom Brokaw and the rest of the dawn patrol at NBC'S Today show. One frustrating morning she awoke especially early to catch a ride into the studio in Jane Pauley's limousine. It was sent to the wrong address. Pauley...
...negotiations this month on terms for the release of the U.S. hostages in Iran have intensified the other ordeal that the captives' families have endured for more than a year: the close scrutiny and, in many cases, constant companionship of the press. In Globe, Ariz., Balch Springs, Texas, and dozens of other towns across the country, each new development in the hostage dilemma means that the telephones start ringing again late at night and reporters camp out in front yards waiting for "reaction...
Finally, the hostages will be debriefed on the details of their ordeal-kindly but thoroughly-by a number of intelligence interrogators. The nature of the debriefing will depend on the individual hostages and the circumstances of their release. If all the hostages are released at once, for example, debriefing will have less urgency. If there is only a partial release, the freed hostages will be quickly questioned to determine the condition and location of the remaining captives. The higher-ranking diplomats among the freed hostages will be expected to make their own full analytic reports about their captivity...
...results are not always salubrious. Hidden flaws can appear as well as unsuspected virtues; repetitiveness may drown out variety. But Author Eudora Welty, 71, survives the ordeal of retrospection beautifully. Her Collected Stories reprints all the works from four earlier collections, plus two previously uncollected pieces written in the '60s, a total of 41 stories dating back to 1936, when a "little magazine" called Manuscript first published her. At that time, the young Mississippi writer could not have guessed that she was enlisting in a new confederacy of Southern letters, one that would rapidly push her forward...
...Aristocracy. Again and again Heymann shows that distinguished writing flows only from distinguished living in its harshest sense. Only the three Lowells who actually reached down the throat of their heritage, grabbing their lives by the bowels and shaking them inside out, managed to leave behind--after the unpleasant ordeal--a literary legacy fit to form a kicking post and sounding board for the next generation...