Word: harold
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WHERE LOVE HAS GONE (350 pp.)-Harold Robbins-Simon & Schuster...
Something more is needed, and as is usually the case, someone has found out what it is. The new lord of the garbage heap is Harold Robbins, a sometime Hollywood screenwriter whose long novel The Carpetbaggers ran into the millions of sales. Robbins writes with a spade, and of course he heaped Carpetbaggers with sex; a choice passage follows a call girl as she shaves a particularly hairy client with a straight razor and jasmine soap, dumps him into a jumbo bathtub, pours champagne over him as if he were a quart of fresh strawberries, then jumps in to help...
...Martin readily gave me permission to use parts of this memorandum in my article in Comment. Because I considered my opinions, suggestions, and evaluations as privileged information for the eyes of Harold Martin alone, I should never have permitted myself to reveal aspects of the memorandum if this permission had not been accorded. There is no conflict between Dr. Martin and myself. We have been engaged in a constructive attempt to find better ways of teaching the mastery of style in expository prose...
...note--The above is a correct version of Mr. Pennington's letter, printed yesterday with an accidental omission that completely distorted Mr. Pennington's meaning. The CRIMSON regrets any embarrassment occasioned by this error to Harold C. Martin or the staff of General Education...
...Martin readily gave me permission to use parts of this memorandum in my article in Comment. Because I considered my opinions, suggestions, and evaluations as privileged information for the eyes of Harold Martin alone, I should never have permitted myself to reveal aspects of the memorandum if this permission had not been accorded. There is no conflict between Dr. Martin and myself. We have been engaged in a constructive attempt to find better ways of teaching the mastery of style in expository prose...