Word: writes
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Nearing retirement at 65, Richard Salant, the acerbic president of CBS News since 1961, told friends he was planning to fill his days by writing a book and, perhaps, giving lectures to journalism students. But last week, in a move that amazed the television industry, Salant announced that on May 1, the day after he leaves the CBS payroll, he will become vice chairman of rival NBC, responsible for news and corporate planning. "I'm terrified of retirement," Salant explained. "The truth is, I don't know how to teach or how to write a book...
...production, a new play by Alan Ayckbourn. Some time in November he sharpens his pencils, gets out his pad of paper from Woolworth's and shuts himself up. Heather can tell when the time is approaching because "he gets slightly weirder and gradually slips into his night routine," writing from 9 p.m. until dawn. A week later he emerges with a new play. Some actually take only six days. One, The Norman Conquests, took eight, but that was a trilogy, so it should have taken 21. "One night," he told TIME's Gerald Clarke, "I finished...
Ayckbourn's aim is to write about serious matters in a funny way. One-liners terrify him even more than dentists and barbers. "There are not more than three funny lines in all of Bedroom Farce," he says proudly. At this point Heather confides his real ambition. "What Alan would like to do," she says, "is to write a funny King Lear." But with at least two third acts...
...heart attack; in White Plains, N.Y. Acclaimed for her first novel, Boston Adventure, at age 29, Stafford went on to publish two more novels, numerous short stories and many nonfiction works. The widow of Press Critic A.J. Liebling and a sharp wit in conversation and prose, Stafford said: "I write for myself and God and a few close friends...
...doubt that we'll ever have a society in which women are treated as real people as long as women's bodies are used as sexpot images to sell products. This use is so prevalent that many of us are tired of taking the time to write letters and make phone calls every time we see a blatant example. For that reason I'm enormously grateful to Naomi F. Chase who made the time to complain about the poster to alumni and development officials...