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...Will you please not "edit" this word? (the word is irremeable. Ed.). It is just what I mean and correctly spelled...
...Aline Bernstein, a married woman many years his senior, and with Maxwell Perkins, his editor and mentor. The first two relationships remain somewhat cloudy, from lack of material in the case of Prof. Baker, and from Mrs. Bernstein's failure to release his letters to her--she plans to edit them herself; one suspects with less than complete frankness. But Wolfe's dealings with Maxwell Perkins are explored in almost painful and certainly verbose detail...
...eleven-point question is not whether Van Doren will go on gambling on TV but whether his whole career may-not be about to veer again. His celebrity has drawn a swarm of offers: to appear on TV as guest star, panelist, moderator of his own series, to edit almanacs and write magazine articles. Barry & Enright want him to join them later as a consultant, and NBC is preparing to make him an offer as a performer. Says Charlie: "Everybody in the world knows what I should do except me. Before last November, I knew I wanted to teach...
Together Carl and Mark were editors of The Nation, and both married girls who could write or edit as well as cook. Irita Van Doren, Carl's first wife, has edited book reviews for the New York Herald Tribune since 1926. Novelist and Editor Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, Mark's wife, wrote and produced broadcasts for the OWI during World War II. The prodigious output of this closely knit quartet soon earned it the nickname of "the Van Doren trust...
...most enduring was the late Aline Bernstein, a theatrical designer with a son Wolfe's age, who became Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock. The present volume contains none of Wolfe's personal letters to her, since Aline Bernstein had intended to edit them herself. But there are enough letters to other women to indicate the line of Wolfe's attachments: first, his passionate onslaught; then his impatience on achieving (or failing to achieve) success; finally, his fairly brutal and exhaustively documented disillusion. Like many young men, Wolfe talked longingly of marriage until it seemed...