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...Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and company may have picked over the freshest entrees. But Paris was still feast enough when a new migration of expatriates collected there after World War II--Irwin Shaw, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and--with a palate educated by leftover meat loaf in Queens, New York--Art Buchwald...
...generation passeth away, a new generation cometh. Buchwald met Hemingway in the Ritz Bar. Buchwald was reverently awed. Hemingway looked up from his drink and said, "Kid, have you ever wrestled a bear?" The dumbstruck Buchwald answered, "What the hell?" He probably should have left the question mark off the reply...
When Buchwald established himself as the great humorist-tour guide of the old New York Herald Tribune, he wrote a parody of Hemingway's novel Across the River and into the Trees, and Hemingway, in a letter to a friend, called Buchwald "a smart-assed son of a bitch...
...King James version strove for accuracy and directness and produced, in the process, some of the greatest poetry in the language. That Bible inspired, among so much else, John Wesley's hymns, the Book of Common Prayer, the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and the prose rhythms of Ernest Hemingway. It became the great resonator, the shared reference uniting English-speaking peoples around the world...
SUICIDE RULED. In the death of model-actress MARGAUX HEMINGWAY, whose body was found on July 1; in Los Angeles. Toxicological tests determined that Hemingway died of an intentional overdose of barbiturates...