Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salinger may not talk much to reporters, but the author of The Catcher in the Rye does talk to his lawyers. Last year he directed them to halt publication by Random House of an unauthorized biography by Ian Hamilton. The reclusive Salinger objected to the book's use of excerpts and summaries from scores of private letters he had written. Last week (a busy one for literary law watchers after the Bell Jar settlement) a Manhattan federal appeals court ordered a preliminary injunction blocking the book "in its present form...
Salinger, 68, had refused from the first to cooperate with Hamilton, literary critic for the Sunday Times of London and biographer of Poet Robert Lowell. When he was sent galleys of J.D. Salinger: A Writing Life, Salinger objected to the extensive use of letters to, among others, Ernest Hemingway and Judge Learned Hand. The correspondence, gathered primarily from university libraries, sometimes shows him at his most scabrous. In one passage cited in the court opinion, a young Salinger vented his anger after Oona O'Neill, whom he had dated, married Charlie Chaplin. "I can see them at home evenings...
...Hamilton said his committee also "would like to hear from the leaders of the Contras [Nicaraguan rebel forces]" about assertions that profits from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran were diverted to the rebel forces...
...issuing scores of subpoenas for individuals and documents, Hamilton said in a meeting with reporters on Capitol Hill, the House committee intends to press for access to bank records from Switzerland, Panama and the Cayman Islands...
...Hamilton indicated that public hearings are not likely to begin for several weeks. He said committee aides are experiencing a delay in obtaining government security clearances necessary for them to read classified documents that have begun arriving at the panel's offices...