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...knew that Yale was pretty weak going in," Fitzgerald said. "We knew they were a better team outdoors than indoors. But we pretty much knew that unless there was giant fiasco that we should run away with it pretty easily...
Goetze finished second in the 1500-meter run, with sophomore Jenny Martin running right behind her to take third place. Senior Meredith Fitzgerald came in second in the 3000-meter race, and freshmen Margaret Angell came in fourth. And senior Patricia Lyons contributed her usual impeccable performances in the throwing events...
...SCOTT FITZGERALD HAD his prescient moments. In 1921 he wrote to Edmund Wilson, chiding his fellow Princetonian for excessive Anglophilia. "Culture follows money," Fitzgerald declared, predicting that New York City rather than London would soon become "the capital of culture." How right he was. Between the end of World War I and the Crash of 1929, the Big Apple (yes, they called it that even then) emerged as the world's most powerful city in finance, music making, theater, literature--practically everything, in fact, except politics. Then, as now, New York had the dubious honor of being the world...
...back as Madame Glyn's day, sober and cautious men wearing double-breasted suits and tasteful ties have paid huge bucks to production executives they thought could realize this dream for them. Such men don't read novels. If they did, they would be familiar with F. Scott Fitzgerald's dictum: "Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads...
...Fitzgerald romanticized the business (as he did everything else) and so vastly exaggerated his census of production genius. Another writer, William Goldman, author and fixer of many a screenplay, came closer to the true figure, which is zip. NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, he wrote, putting his dictum in capital letters in the vain hope that people would pay serious attention...