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...Marlyn Schwartz, 40, a 15-year veteran of the Dallas Morning News, has never been married. Without husbands, children and mortgages, what could be funny? Plenty, to Schwartz, who reported school and court news and wrote obituaries before turning to a humor column six years ago. Her three-times-a-week column turns a seen-it-all eye on the singles life...
...Landers once called her for advice (on writing about divorce, a Schwartz specialty). When the Hell's Angels hired a p.r. firm to upgrade their image, Schwartz went to the party expecting anything. She reported they were wearing designer jeans and had an ice sculpture. They sent her flowers after missing an interview. Says she: "They were mortified...
...Schwartz shamelessly takes ideas from friends' experiences. Says the writer: "It's easier to find new friends "than new columns." She also digs a working woman's elbow into dippy socialites and celebrity puritans like Diet Doctor Nathan Pritikin, whom she took to a Dallas taco joint. While he showed her how to eat healthily even there, she thought ravenously of "guilty nachos." Discovering Orlando, Fla., Schwartz announced, "Forget singles bars, forget computer matchmaking, forget gourmet dating clubs. If you want to meet a man, head straight for Disney World . . . I was there last week...
...introduced. "Manuals are too often the last things that are done," says Communication Sciences' Rosen. The pressure is particularly intense in the fast-moving personal-computer industry. "A lot of the problem in that market is the haste to get the product out first," says Lois Schwartz, a New York City specialist in the preparation of instructions...
...whisked to his suite by a secret elevator. The books abound in learned footnotes and pleasant trivia (the pianist at the Waldorf's Peacock Alley uses an instrument once owned by Cole Porter, who lived in the hotel). New York restaurant critiques, by Daily News Food Editor Arthur Schwartz, are deft and sometimes devastating. At the toplofty "21" Club, the guide observes, "it is surprising how democratic the cooks and waiters are: no one gets terrific food or service...