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...James F. Fitzgerald, one of the five Cambridge school committeemen, who sought re-election, was the only candidate to exceed the quota yesterday in an unofficial first count of ballots. He received 4666 first choices, 172 votes more than the 4494 necessary for election...
...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. These touching letters follow the novelist from the peak of precocious success in the '20s to the slough of final despond in the '30s, when he watched his wife go mad and saw his best work scorned...
...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. These open, wonderfully touching letters follow the novelist from his precocious literary success to his personal and financial misery in the '30s, when he watched his wife go mad and his best work scorned...
Dogged Devotion. Princeton, N.J., the Hotel Cecil, London, Villa Paquita, Juan-les-Pins, France, La Paix, Rodger's Ford, Towson, Md., and the Garden of Allah Hotel, Hollywood, are the datelines of his letters, and they are printed by Editor Turnbull, who is also Fitzgerald's biographer, in the sensible fashion of grouping them with the people they were addressed to. Mostly they are to his mother, his daughter, his agent, his editor at Scribner (Maxwell Perkins), to his old Princeton pals, Wilson and John Peale Bishop. What shines through them all is his dogged devotion...
...heart of Fitzgerald's dilemma in the world was that he understood that somehow his talent was involved with his neurosis. He did not "believe in psychoanalysis"; he was afraid that, if "cured," it would cost him his gift. There is tragic sincerity in his letter to John O'Hara that "the extinction of that light is much more to be dreaded than any material loss." This is not the letter of a weak...