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...CAPE COD LIGHTER (425 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
Fortunately the vacancy seems certain to be filled. The applicant is John O'Hara, who already qualifies in every particular except age. He is a vigorous 57, and will have to marinate a few years longer to achieve the full grandeur of his office. Otherwise his credentials are excellent. He wears tweeds, has been photographed in the company of an impressively ugly walking stick, and lays his tongue smartly across the backs of churls...
...Guess." O'Hara does his best churl thrashing in his prefaces. The churls denounced in the introduction to the author's Five Plays (TiME. Aug. 18, 1961) were, naturally enough, the producers and directors who conspired to keep the plays off Broadway. But O'Hara's customary target is, of course, the book reviewer. His attitude toward reviewers is, more or less, that he has spent 40 years learning how to write, and that if they do not approve of the results, they should feel perfectly free to go drown themselves...
...preface to The Cape Cod Lighter* his latest collection of short stories, is O'Hara's best yet. He explains the "spiteful vindictiveness'' of reviewers for TIME and the weekly reviews by saying that they are all failed novelists. The great man adds loftily: "I never see the little magazines, so I don't know what the hell goes on there, but I can guess...
Died. Timothy Costello, 67, shillelagh-sporting Manhattan pubkeeper and longtime confidant of such writers as Hemingway, Steinbeck, O'Hara, and most visibly, James Thurber, who adorned Costello's Third Avenue saloon with his free-swinging sketches of the eternal war between the sexes; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...