Butterfield wins 1983 American Book Award for nonfiction
The New York Times correspondent Fox Butterfield wins the 1983 American Book Award for nonfiction hardcover for China Alive in the Bitter Sea. Alice Walker wins the fiction prize for The Color Purple and Judith Thurman wins in autobiography biography for Isak Dinesen The Life of a Storyteller. Winners receive a Louise Nevelson sculpture at April 28 ceremonies at the New York Public Library. Awards include a $1,000 prize in literary categories.
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Stevens warns Reagan on 1984 campaign plans
Senate assistant Republican leader Ted Stevens of Alaska urges President Reagan to reveal his 1984 political plans soon or risk Democratic momentum. He quips that with a 1000-pound canary you do not tell it when to sing.
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Taylor Burton Open Private Lives on Broadway Bound Revival
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton headlined the press opening for Private Lives with a cast party at Pier 4 hosted by Anthony Athanas. Boston Globe critic Kevin Kelly panned Taylor as perfectly terrible and coy, while Burton limped through a weak characterization, failing to lift the revival of Noel Coward’s play about an on again off again couple.
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Burger mutters outlaw butterly cookies at embassy reception
Chief Justice Warren Burger sampled butterfly cookies at a Swedish Embassy reception in Washington D C and quipped that such cookies should be outlawed as he bit his fourth treat.
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Dear Abby pipe mystery and reader questions
A reader letters column presents a plumber’s missing pipe tale and Abby’s lighthearted replies. The exchange includes the traveling man, a wife’s denial, and Pete McG’s confession about a pipe in his bathrobe pocket. Abby humorously declines further help and invites readers to write in.
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