EASTSIDER FRANCESCO SCAVULLO Photographer of the world's most beautiful women WESTSIDER ROGER SESSIONS Composer of the future EASTSIDER DICK SHAWN Veteran comic talks about _Love at First Bite_ EASTSIDER GEORGE SHEARING Famed jazz pianist returns to New York WESTSIDER REID SHELTON The big-hearted billionaire of _Annie_ WESTSIDER BOBBY SHORT Mr. New York to perform in Newport Jazz Festival WESTSIDER BEVERLY SILLS Opera superstar GEORGE SINGER 46 years a doorman on the West Side WESTSIDER GREGG SMITH Founder and conductor of the Gregg Smith Singers EASTSIDER LIZ SMITH Queen of gossip EASTSIDERS TOM & DICK SMOTHERS Stars of _I Love My Wife_ on Broadway WESTSIDER VICTOR TEMKIN Publisher of Berkley and Jove Books WESTSIDER JOHN TESH Anchorman for WCBS Channel 2 News WESTSIDER RICHARD THOMAS John-Boy teams up with Henry Fonda in _Roots II_ EASTSIDER ANDY WARHOL Pop artist and publisher of _Interview_ magazine EASTSIDER ARNOLD WEISSBERGER Theatrical attorney for superstars EASTSIDER TOM WICKER Author and columnist for the _New York Times_ EASTSIDER TOM WOLFE Avant-garde author talks about _The Right Stuff_ WESTSIDER PINCHAS ZUKERMAN Violinist and conductor ******** WESTSIDER CLEVELAND AMORY Author, radio humorist, and president of the Fund for Animals 12-9-78 It's impossible to mistake the voice if you've heard it once -- the tone of mock annoyance, the twangy, almost whiny drawl that rings musically in the ear. It could easily belong to a cartoon character or a top TV pitchman, but it doesn't. It belongs to Cleveland Amory, an affable and rugged individualist who has been a celebrated writer for more than half of his 61 years. Amory is also a highly regarded lecturer and radio essayist: his one-minute humor spot, _Curmudgeon at Large_, is heard daily from Maine to California. His latest novel, nearing completion, is due to be published next fall. _TV Guide_ perhaps brought Amory his widest fame. He was the magazine's star columnist from 1963 to 1976, when he gave it up in order to devote his time to other projects, especially the Fund for Animals, a non-profit humane organization that he founded in 1967. He has served as the group's president since the beginning; now it has 150,000 members across the United States. Amory receives no pay for his involvement with the organization. The national headquarters of the Fund for Animals is a suite of rooms in an apartment building near Carnegie Hall. The central room is lined with bookshelves, and everywhere on the 25-foot walls are pictures and statues of animals. Amory enters the room looking utterly exhausted. He is a tall, powerful-looking man with a shock of greyish brown hair that springs from his head like sparks from an electrode. As we sit back to talk and his two pet cats walk about the office, his energy seems to recharge itself.