Write as You Please
Words have been Walter Duranty's stock in trade. As a Cambridge honor graduate, he tutored in Latin, sold stories to Argosy until the New York Times's Paris office hired him in 1913. He covered French armies in World War I.
In 13 years as a 'tween-wars Timesman in Moscow, Duranty won a Pulitzer prize for reporting (1932). wrote a best-seller (I Write As I Please) and some undistinguished fiction. A gay and worldly-wise little man, he got to know the Soviet Russians, stored up a vast stockpile of anecdotes for U.S. lecture audiences.
Last week in Hollywood, old Walter Duranty,...
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