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...everyone else has forgotten for two years. For that matter, it is safe to skip all Major Novelists, since everyone else is presumed to have read them anyway. This narrows the field considerably, since all novelists published in the U.S. since World War II have been Major. The dinner companion who admits reading the soft-center bon-bon writers-Taylor Caldwell, Michener, Helen Maclnnes-actually loses points. History, on the other hand, is prestigious, but a sticky wicket for the novice, who by fall usually forgets which battle took place where and when, and just why General Thingummy lost...
Glinting Images. Hesse's hero is obviously himself: the son of a devout and prosperous burgher who in childhood encounters a strange companion named Max Demian. Demian is a boy, but he has "the face of a man, superior and purposeful, lucid and calm, with knowing eyes. Yet the face had something feminine about it too, and was somehow a thousand years old. He was different, like an animal or a spirit or a picture, unimaginably different from the rest...
...delegation to the United Nations, stepped out of the embassy onto Grosvenor Square. Stevenson obligingly paused to pose for a photographer. Then he and Mrs. Tree strolled down the street. About 200 yards away, in front of the International Sportsmen's Club, Stevenson staggered slightly, grabbed his companion's arm, and said, "I feel faint." Then he collapsed. Mrs. Tree cried to the club's doorman: "Quick, come! Could you come at once and help?" She knelt over Stevenson and tried to revive him by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. An ambulance arrived, but by the time...
...there a representative from Christ Church here," asked Babcock. "Yes," a lady answered, "and I'm not happy." "Do you think," her companion demanded, "that the Ed School is really proud of this building?" Babcock smiled and gestured toward the completely glassed-in IBM complex. "Progress," he said, smiling...
Ever since their first tender meeting at a Las Vegas blackjack table four years ago, Phyllis McGuire, 34, youngest of the three singing McGuire Sisters, has been the constant companion of Chicago Mobster Sam Giancana, 56. So it was inevitable that the Chicago federal grand jury investigating Giancana's crime syndicate would ask her to sing a little. Phyllis warbled for 1 hr. 15 min., reportedly telling all about their jaunts to Europe and the Caribbean but denying any knowledge of Sam's gangland affairs. And she kept right on chattering to reporters saying that "my family...