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...within the lengthy list of acknowledgments at the end of this life of John Cheever is a poignant sentence indeed: "The most important book dealing with Cheever's life is Susan Cheever's Home Before Dark, a sensitive memoir that provides fascinating quotations from his journals and letters." Scott Donaldson, a professor of English at the College of William and Mary, does not go on to explain why his book hardly quotes journals and letters at all, but the reason is obvious. Susan's book about her father was published in 1984, several years before an important glitch arose...
...readers of Donaldson's biography. Words made the man named Cheever, both in his fiction and in his elegant, often unsettling comments on himself and everything he loved and hated. Unfortunately, his biographer can offer only sparing, truncated and oblique evidence of his subject's distinctive gift. The snippets that are included simply underscore the absence of so many others. Here is Cheever, taking tranquilizers as a prescribed substitute for alcohol, complaining that the medication made him feel as "stagnant as the water under an old millwheel." On a visit to the University of Utah in 1977, the author grows...
...three networks together spent $5 million on the event, according to one former network executive; shipped in 50 tons of equipment; and showcased star correspondents. All three evening news anchors -- Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw -- were in attendance. Also along were Washington heavyweights like ABC's Sam Donaldson and a morning anchor from each network: Today's Bryant Gumbel, Good Morning, America's Charles Gibson and CBS This Morning's Kathleen Sullivan. The networks built temporary studios on a balcony at the Rossiya Hotel. Soviet officials even lighted up the onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral...
...crash, the trading centers have become locked in a multibillion-dollar struggle for turf and influence that is frightening away investors and harming business for both. "I have nothing nice to say about Chicago. They've ruined everything," declares Dudley Eppel, 57, a stock trader for Wall Street's Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities. Says Richard Dennis, a hyper-wealthy futures trader in Chicago: "The gulf between us is large, and the stakes are even larger...
Citing an "enormous chilling effect" from the decision, Random House Lawyer Gerald Hollingsworth indicates that Scott Donaldson's forthcoming biography of John Cheever has been shorn of some of Cheever's illustrative and idiosyncratic phrases. Last year Macmillan shelved The Binghams of Louisville after a copyright challenge from Family Patriarch Barry Bingham Sr., former head of the Louisville Courier-Journal media empire...