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...fascinating, the recollections are worth the entire price of production. Here, for instance, is Howard Hawks recalling a hunting trip on which an actor and an author met for the first time. The actor asked who the good living writers were. The author answered, "Thomas Mann, Willa Gather, John Dos Passes, Ernest Hemingway and myself." The actor said, "You write, Mr. Faulkner?" And the author replied, "Yes. What do you do, Mr. Gable...
Japan's Imperial Household Agency, which keeps a little list of royal dos and don'ts, was aghast. As her parents, Crown Prince Akihito, 39, and Princess Michiko, 39, left Tokyo's Togu Palace for a ten-day official tour of Spain, their daughter, Nori, 4, planted on her mother's cheek the first public Imperial kiss. While the royal family does occasionally come out from behind its chrysanthemum curtain-Empress Nagako was recently permitted to exhibit her water-colors-such decadent occidentalism as kissing in public was unprecedented. However, it proved catching: arriving in Madrid...
...cultural interests of the old SR, and the amalgam so far seems to work. The first issue featured some solid reporting by Horace Sutton on the Cuban community in Miami and its links with Watergate. In the same issue, Novelist Herbert Gold contributed a lyrical review of John Dos Passos' letters and diaries, concluded that the novelist was "a person much richer than the dry and programmatic stance of U.S.A. indicates...
...great novelist. Edmund Wilson, a young whippersnapper in those days, conceded that she was one of the few who could bring "distinction" to the Middle West: "that meager and sprawling scene." Not even he was aware that at that very moment the post-World War I generation-Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner-were sealing the door on Cather's kind of reverent regionalism...
...intense that it melted the roof of the plane, took care of the rest. In all, 122 of the 134 people aboard died, most of them Brazilians. Among the victims were Filinto Muller, president of the Brazilian Senate and head of the ruling party, and two popular musicians, Agostinho dos Santos and José Iglesias. Only those in the cockpit and the first few rows of seats were spared. Of the twelve survivors, eleven were crew members who were stationed at the front of the plane; unlike the passengers, some of them apparently had protective smoke masks. Six other crew...