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Cover
Mirror magic: in a Broadway dressing room Joseph Papp, entrepreneur and actor, holds a word of encouragement for actor Joe Morton on opening night of The Great White Hope. “People,” the play bombed—but Papp remains the most phenomenal producer of playwrights—from Shakespeare to the unknowns—in the theater world.
Photograph by Bruce Davidson
6
Sunday Observer
Safe at home
By Russell Baker
15
Banking: Good money on bad loans
Only artful lenders could have been such borrowers, from New York to Sri Lanka. Yet our banks are sound even though their debtors…
By Martin Mayer
16
The case of the gay sergeant
Leonard Matlovich’s strange trial betrays a profound shift in American attitudes—not only toward sexuality.
By Martin Duberman
18
A playwright’s invention named Papp
Even as he talks, the most powerful single man in the American theater is changing his mind, and tactics, and schedule.
By Mel Gussow
20
Cry, Lebanon
Indeed, why Lebanon? is now the issue as the Moslem majority holds down Christian privilege while Syria and Israel ponder intervention.
By James M. Markham
38
The cartoon killers thrive again
Their politicians are guilty, of course, until proved innocent.
By John Culhane
72
Fashion
All furred up
74
Design
A collage of a house
By Paul Goldberger
88
Food
Beyond lasagna
By Craig Claiborne
with Pierre Franey
91
Puzzles
Last week’s answers, Page 102
97
Letters
On popes, Presidents and people-movers.
111
Endpaper
Bartering
By Karl Hess
Picture credits, Page 94