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...authentic writer. Donleavy's recent works seem to be the chores of an author, necessary productions for the furtherance of a literary personage. Donleavy may not actually have dictated his new book while riding in the back of a rented Rolls, but the impression given by Schultz, a farce about an American theatrical impresario attempting to stay afloat in London, is of a novelist who believes that neither his subject nor his reader deserves close attention...
Sigmund Franz Schultz, formerly of Woonsocket, R.I., is the theater man, teamed with a couple of aristocratic young backers, one named Binky and the other called Lord Nectarine of Walham Green. Their firm is called Sperm Productions, and the show that he is trying to produce is called Kiss It, Don't Hold It, It's Too Hot. The funny names suggest that we are in P.G. Wodehouse country. So does the buckety-buckety pace of the book, as Schultz careers from misfortune to disaster in his efforts to produce what is evidently going to be his fourth...
When Mattie Schultz was caught in a San Antonio market, slipping $15 worth of ham, sausage and butter into her purse, she had a simple explanation: "I was hungry. I was desperate." Mrs. Schultz, 91, subsists on $233 a month, from Social Security and her late husband's military pension. She had once saved $5,000, but all except $10 was taken from her in 1973 by a swindler. Last month, after paying her rent and utilities, she had nothing left for food...
After her story was published, people across the country sent her loaves of bread, tinned vegetables, $2,200 in cash and more than 300 letters of sympathy. This made Mattie Schultz feel better. Said she, with tears in her eyes: "God bless all these people...
...Michael Blumenthal, the outspoken Secretary of the Treasury. Nominated to replace him was G. William Miller, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board since 1977. Miller will be succeeded temporarily at the Federal Reserve by Frederick Schultz, a former Florida banker and Carter crony, who was confirmed as a board member by the Senate only last week...