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...LAST STORM by JAMES WILLWERTH 178 pages. Grossman...
...classical impulse for young men to test themselves in wartime. Willwerth went to Indochina as a TIME reporter in 1970-71 seeking "a place where I could be truly pulled apart and reassembled. . .a vision around some corner that will make everything fall into place." Naturally, he does not really find that vision. The sheer energy generated in reporting the Cambodian and Laotian invasions is followed by emptiness. As Willwerth tells it he got sick, homesick, bored and only aroused by the death of a photographer friend. Work is what pulls him through...
...book gives a very appealing sense of a good young reporter's old-fashioned professionalism. Willwerth's spare form, with its effort to "avoid history and politics wherever possible," naturally mixes death with lukewarm eggs, bad Saigon traffic, disappointing bar girls, and the other irritations Willwerth keeps counting. But the book brings the war home with fine, straight reportage on the G.I.s, their Galley debates and fraggings, and a heroin network he stumbles upon. When the year is up, Willwerth leaves Viet Nam, wondering whether his journalism mattered...
...Charlie Chaplin studios in Hollywood, Willwerth found Lou Adler, whose Ode Records is one of the most successful small recording companies. Midway through the interview, Adler excused himself, then dashed downstairs to join a basketball game between two bands, Chicago v. Cheech and Chong. Traveling on to San Francisco, Willwerth talked to Rock Impresario Bill Graham about his difficulties in starting a new record company, then accompanied a local record promoter on a tour of Bay Area radio stations. In Nashville the following week, the correspondent sat in on a recording session by Folk Artist Eric Andersen...
Back in New York, Willwerth turned his files over to Contributing Editor Mark Goodman, who wrote the story, and to Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov, who did some interviewing herself. Zadikov, a seven-year veteran of TIME's Music section, was reared on classical music, but finds her tastes broadening. "People are becoming more sophisticated and are looking for quality," she says. "If they find it in popular music, then that is where they will go, even if they are over...