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...hear what happened to Sarty Snopes?" and then launch into anecdotes (some of them never published) just as if Erskine had lived in the same town but had not been back for a spell. Faulkner once remarked to a friend that Yoknapatawpha Lawyer Gavin Stevens " was a good man, but he didn't succeed in living up to his ideal. But his nephew, the boy [Chick Mallison, the young hero of Intruder in the Dust), I think he may grow up to be a better man than his uncle; I think he may succeed as a human being...
...those who think that the job of U.S. commander in South Viet Nam is an impossible one. It may be, under the present rules But there are also those who think that Westmoreland is one man who may achieve the impossible. Says onetime Army Deputy Chief of Staff James Gavin: "Now things are going to be settled one way or the other in Viet Nam; Westy won't let things drift along, He won't mope around about...
...trade-with-anybody allies in Europe. Western sales to the Soviet bloc are growing by 10% a year, but the U.S. wrote up less than 2%, or $166 million, of last year's $4.2 billion total. Since its allies have not honored the U.S. embargo, says General James Gavin, president of Boston's Arthur D. Little Inc., "it is high time for the U.S. to protect its own economic interests...
...season, and the same goes for shortstop Tom Bilodeau (.271) and captain Tom Stephenson (.276) at first base. Somewhere in this group, however, Shepard has to find an outstanding hitter. Stephenson's average is the best of any returning regular, with the departure of Terry Bartolet (.346) and Gavin Gilmor (.319) removing last year's only two .300 hitters...
...Feel Like a Blonde." Along the course she picked up a husband-British Author and Journalist Gavin Lyall-and a berth on the Observer, one of London's seven Sunday papers. The Observer has sensibly refrained from fettering its most uninhibited and uninhibitable staffer, whether she is attacking the trade ("Any journalist may be exchanged for any other journalist without penalty") or rinse jobs ("I am not sure which is worse-to look like a blonde and feel like a journalist, or look like a lady and feel like a blonde") or her own kin: "My aunt...