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...MICHAEL ROTHSCHILD has a button on his telephone so that he can turn off the ring when he's working. Rothschild writes fiction, in his isolated house in Strong. Maine, and if you call him while he's writing, the phone just rings and rings without getting picked up because he's got the button on and doesn't hear anything. If you're press and happen to call when Rothschild has wandered into his kitchen for coffee and momentarily turned the button off, he still isn't exactly dying to talk. The press is just another mechanical intrusion...
...when the press calls, says Rothschild, he gets a little uneasy because he's not used to having a lot of questions fired at him by people he doesn't know and who seem to have no sympathy for him or any of the other characters they ask about. And he says he resents the presumption of newspapermen, to summarize what he has said in one or two paragraphs of newsprint in some daily paper. Ideas, he says, are communicated by whole conversations or whole books...
...statement released by James Q. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department, the senior members of the department were said to have taken note of "various allegations" that Kearns "was not the sole author of the manuscript" by an apparent reference to editorial assistance Kearns received from Michael Rothschild, a fiction writer, for about...
Goodwin, Kearns's co-author on the new contract and her finance, said yesterday that Rothschild was paid about...
...Rothschild said he did no rewriting whatsoever...