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...Scribner, whose authors have included Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the takeover will mean access to Macmillan's cash and marketing muscle but an end to the corporate independence of a firm that has helped to shape American literature. Wrote Hemingway in a 1947 letter after the death of Maxwell Perkins, his longtime Scribner editor: "One of my best and most loyal friends and wisest counselors in life as well as in writing is dead. But Charles Scribner's Sons are my publishers and I intend to publish with them for the rest of my life...
...Gurney's version, the precious papers are a lost chapter of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby manages to bed Daisy Buchanan. Irene Worth is Fitzgerald's former mistress who protects that cache, and Jeff Daniels is an English instructor who will do anything, including going to bed with Worth's homely granddaughter (Stockard Channing), to obtain...
...original. In James' story the old woman never mentions any letters and finds out only at the end what her boarder is after. "Ah, you publishing scoundrel!" she hisses. In Gurney's play, the woman demands that the young man write her biography and teases him with Fitzgerald's lost chapter. Her anger when he tries to sneak away with it makes no sense. Her character is ultimately unbelievable, as is that of the instructor, who conveniently falls in love with the granddaughter and forgets Fitzgerald. Worth is, as ever and always, in supreme command...
...London, just after World War II, the older generation complained that the entire postal system was going to perdition. There were only three deliveries a day in these straitened times. Why, before the war, there had been five. One oldtimer recalled that Edward FitzGerald, the translator of The Rubdiydt of Omar Khayyam, regularly wrote to London friends from his home near Lowestoft, 116 miles away, and counted on his letters being delivered before evening the same day. They had decent railroad service too in those days...
...Fitzgerald added that a dean for minority affair would be better suited to attack problems faced only by minority students...