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White supported himself in New York through work at several jobs, chiefly in advertising. He contributed light poems to the literary magazines of the day, and a few humorous items to The New Yorker, a new magazine being formed by Harold Ross. On the suggestion of Katharine Angell, one of Ross's assistants. White was hired as a more or less regular staff member: only after several months did he give up his advertising job to work full time for the magazine. White began by writing short items and graduated to writing the "Talk of the Town" section. Though troubled...
...times, White's struggle over what American literature and values should be like took comic forms. After Stuart Little had appeared, the reactions at The New Yorker were mixed. Harold Ross shouted at White for saying that the mouse was born, not adopted. White had committed the mortal sin of using the wrong word. Then, reports White...
...steered his company to Socal in order to evade Pickens, could pick up some $10 million by exercising options to buy Gulf shares. A clutch of other officers can look forward to the same type of windfall. They include: President Edward Walker, $8.8 million; Executive Vice President Harold Hammer, $6.4 million; Executive Vice President Melvin Hill, $4.6 million; and J.L. Huitt, president of Gulf Oil Exploration and Production Co., $2.9 million...
...epic novel has intrigued and defied the efforts of such talented screenwriters and directors as Harold Pinter, Luchino Visconti and Peter Brook. For 22 years Producer Nicole Stephane could not get anyone to complete a film based on Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. Then, "motivated by pure altruism," German Director Volker Schlŏndorff (The Tin Drum), 44, agreed to "jump on the sinking vessel to try to save it." He focused on a single vignette from the book. English Actor Jeremy Irons, 35, and Italian Screen Siren Ornella Muti, 28, signed to play Swann...
...Trimtab Factor (Morrow; 144 pages; $10.95) is a plea for businessmen to take the lead in demanding an end to the nuclear arms race. This new entry in the strategic debate is already generating a lot of debate itself. Author Harold Willens, a Los Angeles executive who has long financed liberal causes and most recently led the drive for the nuclear freeze initiative that California voters passed in 1982, argues that nuclear weapons are the Edsel of the 1980s...