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Javits undoubtedly has an outstanding record in the Senate; Ralph Nader's survey of congressional aides pinpointed the New Yorker as the Senate's brightest, and second most influential, member. The ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Javits was responsible for shepherding the complicated 1973 War Powers Act through Congress...
...editor in chief since 1966: "I give him six weeks." It turned out to be six months, but word did finally come last week that Manning had been replaced. The Atlantic's new helmsman is William Whitworth, 43, a highly respected associate editor at The New Yorker, and one of several potential successors to that magazine's long-reigning editor in chief, William Shawn...
Lummis, who favors Brooks Bros, suits and Dunhill Montecruz cigars, lives in a three-bedroom condo in the fashionable Spanish Oaks section of Las Vegas. He drives his own 1975 Chrysler New Yorker. He often lunches alone, reading a newspaper at the Desert Inn and Country Club or in the coffee shop of the Sands Hotel, which Summa owns. His $225,000-a-year income derives from his position as court-approved administrator of the Hughes estate. Lummis has no plans to expand Summa into new fields, seeing his job as one of pulling the company together. Said he last...
...YORKER, he is a meatball amidst the linguinous prose of Pauline Kael, et al, and in book form his essays stand up well. They are not meant to be read all together at one sitting, but to be savored, like stuffed peppers in chili sauce. If one dare bother to complain, Allen may not be clever enough. His stories are a form of verbal slapstick; he is desperately self-conscious when he puns...
...like the vulgarity of the 20th century," he added. "It's good for literature." Irving went on to complain of the "prudery and priggishness" which he said hampered much 19th-century literature. He added that today, the fiction printed in The New Yorker suffers from a similar "guise of good taste...