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...Medal for Admen-bearing a bas-relief of St. Bernardino, and advertised in The New Yorker. "A new patron saint has been appointed! Henceforth St. Bernardino* of Siena will keep a special eye on advertisers, publicists and public relations experts . . . For anyone engaged in these professions, it's a perfect gift." Price...
...Banmethuot, South Viet Nam, high on a virgin plateau 150 miles northeast of Saigon, tribesmen from the surrounding jungle villages and refugees from Communist-run North Viet Nam are learning modern farming techniques from 60-year-old New Yorker John Barwick and a dozen young (23-26) men from U.S. farm families. Barwick and his wife Laura worked in foreign countries (in the Middle East with Arab refugees, in Europe with prisoners of war) for 15 years before going to Viet Nam for the International Voluntary Service two years...
...Yorker, a daily newspaper is not only a connecting link with the outside world, but also a comforting buffer against it. Swaying in the subways, slouched in commuter trains, even making a course along the city's crowded sidewalks, he can let in the news and shut out his neighbors by huddling behind his paper. Last week New Yorkers were woefully underread and unprotected. Closed down by a strike of their deliverers were the city's nine major newspapers* with a daily circulation of some...
Capote's present projects include a New Yorker article scheduled for the spring, about his winter in Moscow. He returned a second time after touring with the Porgy and Bess troupe and writing The Muses Are Heard account of it all. And he found life as a private citizen more congenial than the spot-lit existence of artists on tour...
...Jesuit weekly America was sternly critical, Thomas Molnar cheered in the liberal Catholic weekly, Commonweal: "It has been said that this book has a high literary value; it has much more; a style, an individuality, a brilliance which may yet create a tradition in American letters." Said The New Yorker: "The special class of satire to which 'Lolita' belongs is small but select, and Mr. Nabokov has produced one of its finest examples...