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...shimmering blue robe to serve breakfast to her father, a bar-car contemporary of Wink's. She is just 22. and whether the twain can mate is the fulcrum of this wry comedy of commuterland. In establishing squatter's rights on the Peter De Vries-John Cheever territory. Author Roswell G. Ham Jr. (Fish Flying Through Air) is a trifle unsure of himself, but he has some of the same deft flair for eyedropping vermouth into the suburban martini...
Woodworking Works. Disaffection with the times is the common ingredient. Predictably, the writer who has mixed the smoothest cup of brine is The New Yorker's John Cheever. With his oft-repeated visions of suburbia under a lowering sky, the author is obviously following Faulkner's lead by creating a kind of Yoknapatawpha, Conn. The fact that there are no Snopeses and not even very much crab grass in the commuters' heaven adds wry emphasis to Cheever's reiterated question. "Is this all there is?" ask his characters, who have everything. In The Country Husband...
Fifteen Harvard Clubs will hold luncheons during the Christmas holidays, Daniel S. Cheever, Director of University Alumni Affairs, said yesterday. All enrolled members of the College and the graduate schools may attend these luncheons, which feature films showing the highlights of the football season and a speaker from the University...
Mackinac, Mich. (Special)--David McCord, Norman Hall, editor of the Alumni Bulletin, Daniel S. Cheever, Director of Alumni Affairs, and Florence Kimball, Alumni Recorder, are at historic Mackinac Island, participating in the American Alumni Council's 44th General Conference, June 28 to July...
...book business. They should be very, very successful." Pat Knopf's new partners are certainly very, very savvy editors. Harper's Bessie (past jobs: U.S. public affairs officer in the Paris embassy, Look editor, OWI) has worked with such authors as Marcel Ayme, Alfred Hayes and John Cheever. Random House's Haydn (past jobs: editor of Crown and Bobbs-Merrill) edits The American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa journal, teaches fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. He wrote several novels, notably The Time Is Noon (1948), a panoramic view of American life that included...