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...live by writing and curiosity." A man to be found asking penetrating questions in untraveled places, Alastair Reid, the individual who so characterizes himself, is a poet and a European correspondent for the New Yorker. That this laconic and bushy-browed Scotsman has a lively curiosity is evident from first meeting; that he has been quick to follow its lead is implicit in his present affiliation with Spanish affairs...
Although he has achieved distinction as a poet, Reid's intimate knowledge and interpretation of Spain have set him apart as a correspondent with few equals. During the six years he has lived in Spain (first in Madrid, then in Barcelona) the amplitude of his friendship with political, intellectual, and artistic leaders has given him a knight's-eye view of the joustings of Franco and his challengers...
Perhaps because his own interest and involvement have been spontaneous, Reid's letters from Spain have captured very tangibly the people, the politics, and the spirit of the place, as well as the tension and maneuverings behind the portly figure of the Caudillo. The style of his reporting is vividly fresh. Reid takes the reader into open cafes and closed discussions, where he allows him to have a glass of wine and eavesdrop. The speakers are Basque seamen and financiers, Catalan laborers, Castillian artists. The mood is apprehensive, comic, and speculative by turns. Reid is very enthusiastic about this method...
Republicans are bullish about Ogden R. Reid, 37 former editor of the New York Herald Tribune and former Ambassador to Israel. He is running in New York's suburban 26th District (part of Westchester County) after knocking off Incumbent Edwin Dooley in the primary. His opponent is Liberal-Democrat Stanley W. Church, 62, a 20-year mayor of New Rochelle. But the most becoming face of all belongs to Iowa Republican Sonja Egenes, 32, a former Iowa State science professor, who has a chance to unseat Democrat Neal Smith in the district near Des Moines. She accuses Smith...
...Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: A pre-Broadway tryout by John Fritz, When the Beer Goes National, with Paul McGrath and Frances Reid...