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...boost her income when, unasked, she sent in to The New Yorker a 1,500-word piece on New York's new International Center of Photography? It was published in the Jan. 13 issue of the magazine-unsigned, like all "Talk of the Town" contributions. Editor William Shawn did not divulge her fee, saying only that she would be paid at "regular rates, which run into the hundreds rather than the thousands." The same week Jackie reaped $3,000 from the sale at a Manhattan auction house of some old furniture, including President Kennedy's chair from Choate...
Maeve Brennan came from Dublin to America with her family in 1934, when she was 17. She has lived here ever since. She worked at first for Harper's Bazaar, but in the 1940s her work caught the eye of New Yorker Editor William Shawn, who encouraged her to do the Long-Winded Lady pieces and stories as well. Her seven-year marriage to Fellow New Yorker Writer St. Clair McKelway ended in divorce...
...company's Manhattan headquarters, puttering around in a tattered red sweater and rolled-up slacks, dreaming up new jobs for himself. He has, for example, decided to become a curator as well as an innovator in dance. He now regularly revives old works by the likes of Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham and, of course, Lester Horton. That involves the company, says Ailey, "in making one arm of ourselves a museum of classic American works...
...millions of Americans when he said, "I can't begin to calculate all the things I have learned from LIFE. I'm not quite the same person I was because of what I saw and read in its pages." The New Yorker's managing editor, William Shawn, mourned a personal loss: "LIFE invented a great new form of journalism. It contributed much to the American community that was valuable, often reaching moments of brilliance and beauty. It's extremely sad to see it go; LIFE was a triumph from beginning...
This week The New Yorker is publishing the 12,000-word scenario written by Bergman for his latest movie, Whisperings and Cries, which will be released in the U.S. in a month or so. "It reads like a long piece of fiction," says Editor William Shawn. "It has all his different kinds of images, understanding of people, psychology, and seriousness." The scenario began as a picture in the director's head-"four women with white dresses in a red room"-and over a year or so it slowly developed into a convoluted story of three sisters and their servant...