Word: hellers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dalton, Cole made two good friends. He grew so close to one, Jon Heller, that they shared a page in their high school year-book...
...Cole and Heller didn't always get along. Heller calls his high school friend "a very difficult person." But they seem to have shared a desire to beat the system. With the Guinness Book of World Records, they saw an opportunity...
...Cole reported that he pitched an egg 350 feet to Heller, who caught it without cracking the shell. That figure smashed the existing record and was forwarded to the Guinness Book, which published it in the appendix to its 1980 edition. The two appeared in three subsequent editions of the world record book...
Books: Joseph Heller revisits Catch...
...although not quite as fresh and sassy as the first time around. Thanks in no small part to Heller's first novel, portraying those in authority as mendacious poltroons now seems unnecessary, since they are so prone to do so in their own words and deeds. But wrapped around the Yossarian/Milo plots are some moving stories of other World War II veterans approaching death and looking back on a vanishing American landscape of hope. When Closing Time is not trying to be funny, it is genuinely serious...