Most readers of the Ladies' Home Journal could take a lesson in thrift from the magazine's part-time correspondent Lynda Johnson Robb. Seven months pregnant, L.BJ.'s older daughter rode a Trailways bus from Washington to New York to turn in an article on young marrieds. Aghast, the editors rented a limousine to drive her back to D.C. But when Lynda learned that the car would cost the magazine $150, she politely declined and returned home on the bus.
English Novelist Lawrence Durrell, traveling in the U.S. to promote his latest opus, Nunquam, announced a discovery. "What I thought was a slight earthquake going...
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