Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before that, I chased cops for Providence and Boston papers." He wrote one of Time's most-talked-about articles last year, coining the phrase and describing the practice of publishing "non-books." He was at Oberlin College when The Catcher in the Rye came out, "and liked it enormously, but did not identify with Holden Caulfield, because at the time I thought I was Eugene Gant." (Translation for the Holden Caulfield set: Skow was then hung on Tom Wolfe...
...pitching, nor booming home runs that assured the Yanks the pennant. Their secret was depth. Manipulating his players with military precision, Rookie Manager Ralph ("The Major") Houk demonstrated an uncanny ability to find the right man for the job. And whatever the job, the right man usually was a catcher-one of a remarkable Yankee trio whose versatility, both at bat and in the field, is unmatched in baseball history. In a season when both major leagues can boast fewer than half a dozen topflight catchers, the three best belong to the Yankees: ·YOGI BERRA. At 36 the oldest...
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...followers queued up, and bookstores sold out their first supplies. To a large extent, the excitement is fueled by memories of Salinger's most famous work. For of all the characters set to paper by American authors since the war, only Holden Caulfield, the gallant scatologer of The Catcher in the Rye, has taken flesh permanently, as George F. Babbitt, Jay Gatsby, Lieut. Henry and Eugene Gant took flesh...
...with writing to need the Village, and he began a series of withdrawals. The first took him to a cottage 24 miles away, in Tarrytown. Friends apparently found his address, because he hid out in a sweatbox near the Third Avenue el for his three-week push to finish Catcher. He decided to move again, and in one of the notable failures of Zen archery, hit on Westport. The artsy-ginsy exurb was no place for Salinger. "A writer's worst enemy is another writer," he remarked ungraciously and accurately somewhat later...