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...Tyndall. Mayor Healy, in fact, swayed so much as he egg-walked down the steps that an officer stood by to catch him. When an Air Force car drove Healy and Fitzpatrick to their billet at a motel 30 miles away, the two mayors, says Motel Owner Fred Faulkner, "had to be helped to their room." And when an officer arrived later to give them some information about Project William Tell, Healy made three requests: he did not want to be bothered with any of "this William Tell stuff," he wanted jet rides arranged, and he wanted transportation...
...other Air Force guests crowded around closed-circuit TV sets at Tyndall to watch the high-altitude shoots, Healy and Fitzpatrick. who did not show up for the demonstration, decided that they had had enough of that "William Tell stuff." To Motel Keeper Faulkner's relief, they made plane reservations for New Orleans, bought their own plane tickets, paid Faulkner $32 for long-distance calls, and went away, leaving two more dead soldiers behind...
...these. These woods are a part of the pasture used by my horses and milk cow; also, the late arrival will find them already full of other hunters. He is kindly requested not to shoot either of these." The advertiser: Oxford's own, only Nobel Prizewinning Author William Faulkner...
...interest is in the whole literary movement beginning with James and ending with Faulkner," Edel says. "James is just beginning to move in the direction of the subjective, of `inside experience.' Why is he more popular now than before? I think the reason is that he understood what happens when two people meet. He's the great novelist of `interpersonal relationships', to use psychological jargon...
...twentieth century novel? I think James would be delighted with Faulkner's technical virtuosity, at its best. Lack of professionalism would have bothered him--James was a professional. And he didn't like violence in the novel. There are a few suicides and accidents, but nothing rash. His novels deal with mature people and the problems that arise among mature people...