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Novelist John Marquand called him the third best editor he had ever known, after George Horace Lorimer and Maxwell Perkins. William Faulkner, Rebecca West, Willa Cather and other major writers found him a staunch and generous companion. Marc Connelly and William Saroyan phoned him when they needed money. One of the few dissenters was Evelyn Waugh, who called him, with characteristic bile, "an emaciated Jew lately promoted within the Hearst organization from editing a weekly paper devoted to commercial chemistry...
...told my roommates that if I get the chance, it's in," a jubilant Larkin said afterward. The now very, very popular junior said he had not yet decided on a companion for the journey...
...Millionaire Harry K. Thaw (Robert Joy)-the star got the pre-game jitters, "not because I was being shot, but because I might let the team down." He died like a pro. As the bullets flew, he slumped convincingly over a table, then rolled to the floor. His comely companion cried holy murder, which made Mailer especially proud. She is his sixth and current wife Norris Church, 31. Said he: "Did you hear her? Weren't those just the loudest possible screams...
...birth in chapter three, so our last picture of the poet frames the 65-year-old moving into his Camden house. Kaplan's stately and elegant concluding line leaves us with a Whitman not deceased but wonderfully alive: an old man who never married and had no heart's companion now except his books, he rode contentedly at anchor on the waters of the past...
...microphone is a constant companion to Breuer's stage work, and amplification figures centrally in much of the experimental work at Mabou Mines. Prelude to Death in Venice, a one-man show the company presented earlier this fall, used electronics to modify actor Bill Raymond's voice, metamorphosing its characteristics and its position. Far from undermining the effectiveness of dramatic performance, Breuer maintains that, properly directed, the amplifier can restore the theater: "The Loeb seats 550-plus. It's not that good acoustically, and the actors have to project like crazy. Do you know what happens to acting when...