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WRITING about writers is, in many ways, far more difficult than telling the stories of kings, politicians, bankers or bums. For the man who is putting the story down on paper often sees a great deal of himself in the subject. "We have many things in common," muses Writer Alwyn Lee about the subject of this week's cover story, Writer John Cheever...
What they have in common, is not necessarily their background. Alwyn Lee was born in Australia, only a few months from the time that John Cheever was born in Massachusetts, and put down his roots in that rough-and-ready land. He graduated with honors in philosophy from the University of Melbourne, became a newspaperman, and with his wife, Essie, came to the U.S. in 1939. They are a rare husband-wife combination on the TIME staff; she is chief of editorial researchers...
When the cover story, edited by Senior Editor A. T. Baker, was on press, Alwyn Lee summed up the collective feeling in an admittedly subjective observation on Cheever's writing: "His way is the way we should think about ourselves...
Schaaf has been informal conductor and advisor to two newly organized string quartets in Dunster which meet each Thursday night. Alwyn Pappenheimer, Master of Dunster House, plays the viola in one quartet with other members of the House...
...Street's best rhetorician is a broad-sterned woman named Laura, who has had eight children by seven men. "Man, she like Shakespeare when it come to using words," says a man who is inexplicably called Hat. Tenderly, Laura gives her brood the rough side of her tongue: "Alwyn, you broadmouth brute, come here," and "Lorna, you black bowleg bitch, why you can't look what you doing...