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...much the same reason, McCalla's suicide is only mildly tragic. In a long paragraph at the end, and once or twice during the proceedings, Halberstam indicates that the new sheriff was caught between duty to his supporters (father, preacher, frigid and nagging wife) on the one hand, and, on the other, a desire to say the hell with it all (frigid and nagging wife). Although he flatly and ethically rejects Angelo's offer of five thousand dollars a year, in return for a certain averting of the eyes, he goes for Claudia, the prostitute, like an alcoholic...
...former CRIMSON managing editor and one-time sports writer, the author of The Noblest Roman, David Halberstam, '55 always considered himself a literary light-weight. He is still somewhat of a sport...
Contacted in Nashville at what sounded like quite a gay autographing party for his first novel, Halberstam told us a little about how he came to write the tale of Angelo the neurotic bootlegger...
...Halberstam was not trying to convey a message in his writing. "I wanted it to be strong and as visual and as much fun as possible." He aimed at being unpretentious and was considerably irritated that several were trying to justify their Ph.D.'s in an extended search for meaning in the book...
Born in 1934 in New York. Halberstam moved around some as a voungster--Rochester. Minn: Winsted, Conn: and El Paso and Austin Texas. Before coming to Cambridge, he graduated from high school in Haiberstam's main occupation is still journalism, although it-has gone quite a ways from old Point. Now an assistant to Reston in the Washington of the New York Times, maintains that "the CRIMSON greatest newspaper I have worked...