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Frank Page is the upstanding young editor who narrates the novel, an account of the workings of Belles Lettres from its beginnings as the plaything of the rich and cultivated Winifred Buckram to its present as a property of Protean Publications, whose owner, Cyrus Tooling, is less cultivated. His response to the journal's list of 25 important American writers: "Who the f is Harold Brodkey? And where the f is Herman Wouk...
...That will be all, Cyrus. Now get back to The Crimson and finish pounding out those license plates, or those movie reviews, or whatever it is that you do, I always get them confused," I commanded and began sorting through the day's missives. I leafed quickly past the rejection letters from humor magazines whom I had told that I was a shoo-in for the presidency. They all tended to read the same: "Dear Mr. Oakley, you told us you were going to be president, but we hear that you were absent-minded and forgot where you placed...
After Harvard Co-Captain Joe Dowling, playing at number two, downed Cyrus Metha in three straight games, Doug Lifford followed with a tough, five-game victory over Keith Flavell, 17-16, 13-15, 14-17, 15-5, 15-5 to give the Crimson a commanding 3-0 lead...
...foreign policy experts to visit the Soviet Union in some time will be able to form their own judgments on the changes wrought so far during the Gorbachev era. A delegation of 350 members of the Council on Foreign Relations, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance and ex-U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, is scheduled to be in Moscow for discussions with Soviet officials and academics, and Gorbachev is expected to meet with the group...
...annual fee of one lira (about .07 cent)? Where else can it be learned that Henry VII's Queen Elizabeth was the original model for the four queens in a deck of playing cards, that Venus is the only planet with a rotation from east to west or that Cyrus the Great could address every soldier in his army by name...