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DIED. Robert Alan Aurthur, 56, television playwright, who wrote for such 1950s series as Philco Television Playhouse and Studio One; of lung cancer; in New York City. A Marine combat correspondent during World War II, Aurthur wrote short fiction for The New Yorker before becoming one of TV's Big Four dramatists (the other three: Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, Paddy Chayefsky). Aurthur's award-winning credits included Man on the Mountain top (1954) and A Man Is Ten Feet Tall...
...other characters described in Roueche's full-length portraits in this collection of 13 pieces that originally appeared in The New Yorker move with a similar ease through the routines of their lives. A Congregational minister visits the aged and tries, without notable success, to counsel the young. Residents of a West Virginia hill town adjust to living in an environment better suited to mountain goats. "How many places do you know," one of the townspeople asks Roueché, "where you can stand at the basement door and spit on the roof of a three-story house?" Visiting...
DIED. Janet Planner, 86, writer and correspondent whose "Letter from Paris," by-lined "Genet," appeared regularly in The New Yorker for almost 50 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Indianapolis, Planner worked briefly as a newspaper film critic and traveled throughout Europe before settling in Paris in 1922. Three years later, New Yorker Editor Harold Ross hired the American expatriate, and for the next five decades she filed erudite portraits of French society. A graceful, exacting stylist, Planner also wrote profiles on figures as diverse as Adolf Hitler and Queen Mary of England...
...Yorker Justin Scott spent two years researching and writing The Ship-killer. It shows. His saga of the battered, unyielding Carolyn is as heady as Francis Chichester's narrative, with a draught of Melville and a slosh of Josh Slocum. His choice of villain is a shrewd one. Leviathan is even more dangerous and ungovernable than any vessel described in Noël Mostert's Supership. Scott, who has published five previous novels, limns his driven people as stylishly as his boats. As for Peter Hardin, he will surely name his next sloop Ajaratu...
Today, a New Yorker looking for fulltime, live-in help must compete with as many as 70 other applicants for the same worker. Live-in housekeepers on Long Island frequently get a color TV in their private quarters, use of a car and country club privileges in addition to their pay. In many urban areas, homeowners resort to maid sharing, maid stealing and other unorthodox means of getting help. A Fort Lauderdale couple succeeded in finding a housekeeper only after the husband, an attorney, received a client's domestic as part of a bonus for handling his divorce case...