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John Goodbody
April 17, 2025
I arrived in the UPI Paris Bureau when Arthur was the bureau chief. He was encouraging and supportive and I was sorry that after six months he moved to the IHT. However, we stayed in touch and Donelle and he often invited me to dinner. I returned to London in 1982 and never saw him again but remember him with affection and respect.
Ron Cohen
September 18, 2022
I knew Art from our UPI days. In the mid-1970s, when I was visiting Paris, I stopped in at the bureau (I was UPI editor in Washington at the time) and he graciously took me to one of his favorite restaurants (au chez eux, I believe) where we consumed food and wine to the edge of stupefaction. Next day he assigned a woman "to show me around the real Paris." Don´t recall her name or who she was, but it was a marvelous day. Always suspected Art did this to get the "visiting dignitary " out of his hair so he could do his real work, but he did it so gently and warmly! Our paths crossed a few times thereafter, and we recalled the delightful evening. I wish I had gotten to know him more closely. I also would like to read "Recollections", but have been unable to track down a copy. I will keep trying.
Meantime, I salute Art´s memory, and hope that when I am 92 a great and perfect love might enter my life - complete with a view of the Eiffel Tower!
Ron Cohen
Carolyn Kraus
August 15, 2022
Dear Michael, I was a good friend of your fathers for the last 20+ years of his life, primarily during his marriage to Gladys, my dear friend and colleague. I visited with them several times in Washington, and they visited me whenever they were in Ann Arbor. At Gladys' memorial in Detroit, I was asked to read a letter that I had recently sent to your dad about their late-life romance. I admired the grace with which he cared for Gladys as she declined, and I was pleased that he kept in touch with me after her death, even visiting several times in Ann Arbor with his partner and, of course, sharing his thoughts and jokes in those communal letters. Your dad used to whirl me around in a foxtrot whenever we met, and for his courtly manner, I once called him "dapper." When he scoffed at the word, I changed it to "dashing," which pleased him! As a fellow journalist, I admired Arthur's long, illustrious, and sometimes daring career, daring regardless of the humble protestations in his memoirs. I feel fortunate to have known this accomplished, kind, and "dashing" man, whom you were fortunate to call your dad. Sending love, Carolyn Kraus (formerly of Detroit and Ann Arbor, now retired in Berkeley, CA)
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