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The key man in the day-to-day management of the Kennedy fortune is Thomas J. Walsh, 45, an accountant and tax expert who has been employed by the family since the 1950s. In the hands of skillful men like Walsh, the heirs have no real cause for money worries...
It is no accident that I haven't directly commented on his poetry. The only thing I can say with confidence is that you should read his work, and then perhaps tell me how to classify it. A review could center on the grandiose and (to me) largely irrelevant question...
Died. Harry Scherman, 82, a founder of the Book-of-the-Month Club, whose skillful use of advertising and the U.S. mails revolutionized book distribution; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Convinced that the growing demand for books could best be met through mail-order sales (few people were near...
Farrell conveys Patricia Neal's feminine qualities with unusual sensitivity. His profile of Roald-a combination of intelligence, stoicism and optimism-is equally good. What Pat and Roald lacks is more of Farrell himself: his own feelings about these people whose lives he has entered, or some audacious perceptions...
The most interesting member of the ring, however, was hardly more than a phantasm of pseudonyms: Von Houry / Herzog / Cassou / Hoffman / Raynal / Dory-Boutin. Actually he was a man named Elmyr de Hory, the artist responsible for counterfeiting the countless drawings, gouaches, watercolors and oils sold as Picassos, Matisses, Modiglianis...