By: Dave Astor With Art Buchwald possibly leaving his hospice for Martha's Vineyard, might he come to Boston July 1 to celebrate receiving the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award?
"Art knows we'd love to have him with us, but don't forget he did have an amputation and that might make travel very inconvenient for him," said NSNC President Suzette Martinez Standring, who told E&P that Buchwald's daughter is scheduled to attend the awards banquet and say some words on her father's behalf. Standring added that an NSNC board member, Tom Regan, flew to Washington this month to tape a three-minute acceptance speech by Buchwald to be played at the July 1 event.
Standring visited Buchwald in the hospice Feb. 28 to present the Pulitzer Prize-winning political humor columnist with the lifetime achievement honor at a time when it looked like he would live only a few more weeks after refusing kidney dialysis. Since then, the Tribune Media Services-syndicated Buchwald
has defied the odds and done unexpectedly well.
"Art smooth-talked his way past the Grim Reaper," said Standring. And, referring to all the mail and visits Buchwald received at the hospice, she added: "I think his recovery is a sterling example of what an outpouring of love can do."
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