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...Cerf was informed that "a young man who says he is the world's greatest author is in the lobby." Replied Cerf unhesitatingly: "Tell Mr. Saroyan to come right up." Playwright William Saroyan was still rambunctiously self-assured a few days before cancer killed him last week in Fresno, Calif. "Everybody has got to die," he said, "but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case...
...interesting case. Saroyan was born in Fresno, son of Armenian refugees who fled the Turkish massacres at the beginning of the century. He knew the wrench of separation and the insular poverty of California's little Armenias: Saroyan's early years were spent in an orphanage after his father died and his mother had to work full time. Like the young bringer of good news and bad in his screenplay turned novel The Human Comedy, Saroyan began his working life as a telegraph boy. When his short story The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze...
Eisenhardt and the younger Haas, a former Levi Strauss Foundation officer who is the A's executive vice president, plan to install baseball's first computerized ticket-selling operation, with satellite terminals in San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno and Stockton to cope with the lengthening lines of excited fans. The executives also intend to get athletes involved in community projects, and, as the elder Haas dreams, "win the World Series." October is a long way off, but if the new owners keep their cattle rollin' and their hats on the rack, their phenomenal success with...
Interstate 5, south of Modesto, is one of the most desolate and dreary stretches of road in the world. Skirting Bakersfield. Fresno, Chico, and Merced, it slices north through the unending flatland of California's Great Central Valley. It is a road of dust and heat and pale skies and dull landscapes and garish billboards peeling under the baking sun. Most of the year it is empty...
Northeastern 55, Fresno...