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...action have been Bobby's game since his earliest days in Los Angeles. How did he get that way? Does anyone really know if there is a real Bobby Riggs to stand up? Possibly not. Riggs is a persona constantly reinventing himself. Other men, like Hemingway and Waugh, have done that, but with more substance and perspective. It is arguable whether anyone -including his ex-wives, whose views of him run counter to contemporary mythology-has ever really known him. That figures. Someone who can spring forth as a full-blown pop hero in his sixth decade is bound...
...from the start he has had brilliant success with critics. An author is of course not accountable for the praise he attracts. After a while, though, it becomes questionable whether reviewers do a young writer good-Mano is 31-to compare him with the likes of Kierkegaard and Evelyn Waugh. Mano is still a writer of more promise than achievement. His strengths are energy, earnestness and a tough intelligence. But he is a stiff writer, not especially imaginative, and his overdrawn characters tend to be mere mouthpieces for ideas...
Seven years after the death of English Novelist Evelyn Waugh, his diary−a minor masterpiece of snobbism and malicious observations−is being published in seven installments by the London Observer. In 1930, when Waugh was busy with the social-literary set, he wrote: "After dinner I went to the Savoy Theater and said: 'I am Evelyn Waugh. Please give me a seat.' So they did. I saw the last two acts of Paul Robeson's Othello. Hopeless production but I like his great black booby face." Waugh also noted disapprovingly that Poet Edith Sitwell...
Papa was preceded, and followed, by other men of letters, including Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, James Michener, Norman Mailer and James Dickey. Winston Churchill chose LIFE to publish his memoirs, and so did Harry S. Truman, the Duke of Windsor, Charles de Gaulle and Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Douglas MacArthur. It was with these memoirs that LIFE underlined its growing concern with the lessons of history...
There is a sort of Evelyn Waugh-torn atmosphere in Kampala. While a vast crowd of Africans swarmed up Acacia Avenue toward the stadium, a lone white man carried on unperturbedly with his golf game on the course near by, his black caddy trotting dutifully by his side. Foreign journalists are definitely not welcome in the capital these days, and the few whites in the streets get curious stares, particularly if they are carrying cameras...