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...fund-raising committee for Harvard's East Asian Studies, T. Jefferson Coolidge Jr. '55, is one of the only wealthy Americans to have a deep and genuine concern for Korea. His business interests, long pre-dating the age of investment popularity for Korea, stood him in good stead in soliciting funds from one of the only groups likely to give them: the Korean Traders Association (KTA). Whatever the problems resulting, he should not be maligned for this effort...
...stopped in at Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel recently, exactly eight years after the Democratic National Convention. The Yippies and their banner--a Vietcong flag--were noticeably absent. In their stead was another party and another banner: the American Independent Party and its emblem, a large American eagle--made of styrofoam...
...variety of settings in Stead's work reflects the 45 years she has lived away from her native Sydney-in England, France and the U.S. The solid financial background that gives The House of All Nations its authority was gained during the late '20s when Stead worked in a Paris bank. She was also married to a banker, William Blech, who wrote novels himself under the pseudonym of "William Blake." He died in 1968 and a few years later Stead returned to Australia. She now lives with her brother, a labor union official, in an extension...
Christina Stead will be 74 in July but is not yet ready to retire. In fact she is finishing a new novel entitled I'm Dying Laughing. "It is," she remarks, "about some American friends who were caught in the Red-baiting of the '30s. He was from a rich family and she was a moneymaker. As things were then, a lot of the best people were radical, but they got lost on the way because of her moneymaking. It's a great theme. People getting torn apart by this political whirlpool, dismembered by the imperatives...
...Stead still claims to have socialist tendencies, a legacy from her father who combined radical opinions with marine biology. On the feminist movement, the creator of Henny Pollit keeps a philosophical distance: "It's a very old thing," she observes. "I'm all for bettering and equalizing conditions and pay for women, but I'm not interested in all the funny business that goes...