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For many of the convicted Watergate principals, prison was a perfect place to write a book. E. Howard Hunt, however, had already written 42 short stories and spy novels. He used his cell in Florida's Eglin Air Force Base prison as an artist's studio, turning out 35 watercolors and acrylics that "express my hopes and despairs." Soon Hunt, 58, will be able to paint at home. After serving 2½ years of his maximum eight-year term and paying a $10,000 fine, he will be paroled on Feb. 25. Meanwhile, his lawyer is busy trying to line up a one-man show for him near his home in Miami or in New York City. Gallery-goers will note that his initials are drawn to look like prison bars.
French Director Claude LeLouch made such a big hit with his 1966 movie A Man and A Woman that he is calling his first U.S. production Another Man, Another Woman. It is not, however, a sequel to his soft-focus romance between a French racing driver and a young widow. This time the story takes place in the American West in the 1870s. A French immigrant wife (Genevieve Bujold) arrives by stagecoach in dusty Arizona. After cleaning up in a steaming pay tub (a cold bath costs 50 and a hot bath 100), she meets and becomes involved with a young veterinarian (James Caan). LeLouch says he nearly called it A Man, A Woman and a Gun.
Exiled Soviet Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn has not been heard from much since he settled last fall in Cavendish, Vt. (pop. 1,264), with his wife and children. The Nobel-prizewinning author rarely emerges from behind the wire fence protecting his secluded 50-acre estate. He did, however, request a luncheon with Vermont Governor Richard Shelling in Montpelier. Over Chateaubriand, Solzhenitsyn announced his plans to stay in Vermont—until the day comes when he can "return to a free Russia." Meanwhile he has been doing some writing in Cavendish, and plans to start a publishing house of his own, which will distribute works on Russian history and culture, some by his own pen.
The course title—U4830Y, American Foreign Policy, 1945-1975—sounded ordinary enough, but the auditorium was S.R.O. at Columbia University last week. Reason: George McGovern was teaching again for the first time since he left his podium at Dakota Wesleyan University in 1953. His first lecture was about the role of Congress in foreign policy, but the Senator from South Dakota found that all the students' questions were on the subject of Viet Nam. Which was understandable enough. Said he: "Viet Nam has been the dominant factor of American life for the past 15 years. It would be a strange class that wouldn't bring up the subject." The students applauded when McGovern hailed President Carter's pardon of draft evaders, then wondered aloud whether "the men who conducted the war in Viet Nam may be the ones in need of a pardon."