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...gave the poems as a gift to his future wife Estelle Franklin 63 years ago, but William Faulkner was never able to publish the 88-page, hand-bound collection. Vision in Spring was eventually misplaced and nearly forgotten until 1979, when Faulkner Scholar Judith Sensibar, of Chicago, stumbled on a photocopy of the book in the attic of the writer's daughter Jill Faulkner Summers. Sensibar's find will be published by the University of Texas Press next month. Faulkner's opinion of himself as "a failed poet" is unlikely to be challenged by the volume...
...second-rate basketball player at Salinas (Calif.) High School. In 1925, the year that F. Scott Fitzgerald became famous for The Great Gatsby, Steinbeck, 23, was still studying "creative writing" at Stanford-too late, as well as too naive, to become a chronicler of the jazz age. William Faulkner sank his roots in Oxford, Miss., and lived off the accumulated capital of the Old South. The nouveau Californian nourished a vague passion for the Pacific Ocean, which helped him more as an amateur marine biologist than as a professional storyteller...
...Richler's amusement park, the contributors often find themselves in a hall of mirrors. Southerner Roy Blount Jr. indignantly recalls that "one afternoon this African got up in my favorite class, Difficult Fiction, and denounced William Faulkner for his treatment of 'non-Western people.' " Peter De Vries weighs in with a brilliant Yoknapatawpha parody, then Kenneth Tynan lampoons Faulkner in his spoonbread rendition of Our Town: "Well, folks, reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Mississippi ... Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked...
Robert C. Faulkner '84, co-chair of the Eliot House Jimmy Fund committee, is pleased with the $70,000 the "Evening of Champions" is expected to raise this year. "We've raised $350,000 in the 14 years that we've had the show, and have managed to raise more each year than the year before," he said yesterday...
...Faulkner, ranked 11th nationally in 1980 Senior Men's competition, Elise R. Davison '86, a former double gold medalist and Mike Stephenson '86 a bronze medalist at the 1982 Northwest Championships, will each skate at one performance...