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John Hildebidle, senior tutor of Adams House, said yesterday that he had beard no complaints other than the usual regrets concerning particular choices...
...BERNARD BEARD, 32 Uemployed, Los Angeles
Attending a birthday party, he was shot twice in the chest by a man who was apparently gunning for one of Beard's friends. Suspect arrested...
...though he could not distill a publishable book, that passport to the literary world he saw only through the bottom of a glass. Instead, he sealed himself in the myth of the struggling, hard-drinking writer. He became a middle-aged character in Manhattan's East Village. His beard grew wild, as did his waistline. He dressed entirely in purple and must have resembled a hairy grape...
...which Baldwin's 14-year-old black hero, John Grimes, takes a headlong run down a hill of melting snow: "At the bottom of the hill, where the ground abruptly leveled off onto a gravel path, he nearly knocked down an old white man with a white beard, who was walking very slowly and leaning on his cane. They both stopped, astonished, and looked at one another. John struggled to catch his breath and apologize, but the old man smiled. John smiled back. It was as though he and the old man had between them a great secret...