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...Associate Editor Stefan Kanfer, doing a story on Comedian-Writer-Actor-Director Woody Allen was a bit like going home. Kanfer, like Allen, once wrote gags for nightclub and TV personalities. He also had a short run as an off-Broadway playwright before joining TIME...
Esquire again gets the prize for unusual choices. In 1968 the magazine recruited Playwright Jean Genet, Novelist William Burroughs, Satirist Terry Southern and Poet Allen Ginsberg. This time the Esquire group is to include Guenrikh Borovik, 43, former U.S. correspondent for the Soviet news agency Novosti and writer for Izvestia and Pravda. He will team with Jack Chen, 63, a Eurasian who travels on a Trinidad passport and wrote for Peking Review and People's Daily while living in mainland China from 1950 until last year. To round out this summer's roster, Esquire will have the services...
...last time, will write for LIFE this year. He will have a chance to compete with one of his more prominent nonfans, Feminist Germaine Greer, who will carry the Harper's colors at the Democratic Convention. For the Republican, Harper's is switching to Novelist-Playwright Kurt Vonnegut. The monthly's rival Atlantic is avoiding the name game. Says Managing Editor Michael Janeway. "We don't think it's the year for that. Some good, hard digging will be needed to cover this convention...
...that time, Kaufman was a rich, famous author-collaborator of more than two dozen comedies and musicals, including You Can't Take It With You, Of Thee I Sing and Silk Stockings. His career as a critic, playwright and director spanned nearly 40 years, and his influence was enormous. Brooks Atkinson credited Kaufman with making the wisecrack part of our language. Groucho Marx claimed that "Kaufman gave me the walk and the talk...
...year-old mother of three children who lives in Mountain Ash, Wales, she earned an Oxford degree in English and gleaned most of her information about science "from reading books." Two men in particular inspired her. The first was Amateur Ethologist Robert Ardrey, the failed but imaginative playwright whose views she now rejects. The second was Oxford Zoologist Sir Alister Hardy, an authority on plankton who thought up a nonsexist version of aquatic evolution about a dozen years...