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Bonnie and Clyde. (The other is The Graduate.) Those two pictures, I think, show how new, young directors in the moving picture business are edging out the tired old ones. The same thing, alas, is happening in publishing!

You did Toland's Last Hundred Days too.

Yes. And he's now doing the definitive book about the American-Japanese war. I told you about the general from Iwo Jima. Or didn't I?

Maybe you did. What was it?

Well, when I was in Japan last spring, the NBC people gave a garden party for Phyllis and me at which we met many of the dignitaries in Tokyo, including all the newspaper and television executives. Rich introduced me to one Japanese gentleman, whose name I don't remember. He was General Somebody-or-other. It was whispered in my ear that he had been the Japanese general at Iwo Jima. Well, it startled me to be shaking hands in a very pleasant way at a garden party with the man on the other side of this bloody battle. I told him that we were the publishers of John Toland and that Toland was doing a story of the War and that I supposed that he would be mentioned in it. He beamed with pleasure and said, “Toland is a wonderful man. He married a Japanese girl whom I like very much. I've told him everything