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...talks about is necking girls until I just can't stand it and have to go somewhere else. So I went to the bookstore to see if they have any books that aren't so depressing, and I saw this book by Magaret Salinger called Dream Catcher, although in the book she says she likes to be called Peggy. Anyway, so I thought the title sounded nice enough. And I thought it might make me feel a little better about school and Stradlater. I had a feeling that it was not a book that my older brother Allie would read...
...magic skills, advocate witchcraft. Numerous school districts have considered banning the series from classrooms, but only a few have made good on the threat. According to the American Library Association, more than 5,000 complaints were recorded at school and public libraries over the past 10 years. "The Catcher in the Rye," "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" were among the titles adults found most offensive...
DIED. CLYDE SUKEFORTH, 98, Brooklyn Dodgers catcher, coach and scout who brought Jackie Robinson to the majors in 1947; in Waldoboro, Maine. Dodgers president Branch Rickey dispatched Sukeforth to scout Negro League shortstop Robinson despite an unwritten rule against black players. Sukeforth was also known to Brooklyn fans as the coach who in 1951 sent pitcher Ralph Branca rather than Carl Erskine in to face the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the pennant play-off. On the second pitch, Thomson launched the "shot heard 'round the world," winning the pennant for the Giants...
...media ubiquity will usually do the trick. (Anyone want to hear another word from Richard Hatch?) But for Pete's sake, asking people to leave you alone is suicide. And be nice to your kids. J.D. Salinger is learning those lessons the hard way. Daughter MARGARET SALINGER'S Dream Catcher, the rare tell-all that does tell a lot, is expected to sell briskly when it hits stores on Wednesday. Among the Daddy Dearest revelations: J.D. experimented with Scientology, advised her to abort her baby, had a brief marriage to a Nazi and is now profoundly deaf. Margaret, 44, told...
...Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction," a perennial chart-topper in lists of this sort, placed second, a testament to the enduring appeal of a monster riff attached to a slurred lyric that manages to be youthful and world-weary at the same time - a three-minute "Catcher in the Rye" for its generation and all those that followed...