Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thunderous Picnic. The death ended a literary vendetta as implacable as any feud in the Kentucky hills. Tall, handsome Stanhope and rude, arrogant Curtal spent a lifetime competing for women, fame, friends, disciples and the minds of men. Atheist, lecher and revolutionary...
...Irving Wallace (768 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $5.95). "Truth and honesty," proclaims Irving Wallace, are the pure, white lights that guide his path as a novelist. The Chapman Report concerned the sexual shenanigans of a band of interviewers and interviewees taking part in a Kinsey-like study, and brought him fame and $250,000 so far from the American rights alone, including a Hollywood sale. But Wallace insists that sincerity was the mark of his bedside manner. He says that he recoils when people stare at him as if they saw on his face "the leer of a sex-mad ogre...
...staying longer to learn more is a wholesome trend at U.S. colleges, it is not necessarily the only path to real achievement. Fame and success can also come to the 60% of all U.S. collegians who quit the campus where they started. Case in point: Scott Carpenter...
...have been much surprised. At 41 and in his 21st big-league season, "Stan the Man" has survived long past a ballplayer's professional life expectancy. His contemporaries - Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Owen, Jackie Robinson - are fishing, running bowling alleys, and collecting votes for the Hall of Fame. Yet Musial, his reflexes still sharp and his aging muscles still limber, keeps right on playing leftfield for the Cards with a young man's speed. And each time he uncoils from his familiar, knock-kneed batting crouch to hammer a single over second, he rewrites baseball...
Wouk has borrowed almost everything from Wolfe but his cuff links, although of course there is the customary title-page disclaimer. Wolfe himself is mentioned several times, and Youngblood Hawke, the fictional author, comes to fame 15 years after Wolfe's death. But the list of similarities testifies to the attentiveness of Wouk's note taking: both Wolfe and Hawke had huge physiques; Southern backgrounds; cantankerous mothers obsessed with real estate; awkward, adoring older sisters; affairs with sophisticated New York matrons 15 years older than themselves; compulsions to set down every acre of the U.S. on paper; prose...