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...Learning. Being expelled from school is easy stuff-thousands of Hoiden Caulfields do it every year; as the wounded adolescent swaggers out of the gates of the old academy, he swears that when he gets around to it, he will write up the whole story and restore justice to the shattered universe. Unlike most, young John Cheever actually did write it all down and sent the story to Malcolm Cowley at the New Republic, who promptly printed it. The really astonishing thing about Expelled was not that it was written and actually published, but that there was no self-pity...
...consequence I own a first-class television set, an all-but-silent air conditioner and a very long-lasting deodorant. My armpits never stink. I pay attention to all spot announcements on the radio about mental health, the seven signs of cancer, and safe driving. Yesterday William Hoiden delivered a radio announcement on litterbugs. 'Let's face it,' said Holden. 'Nobody can do anything about it-but you and me.' This is true. I have been careful ever since." The Moviegoer's shortcoming is that if there is anything to say after the characters...
During Tom Brown's school days at Rugby a century ago, for fastidious Dink Stover going up to Yale in 1912, down to Catcher's supercilious modern hero, Hoiden Caulfield, the big deal for the well-dressed schoolboy and collegian has always been flannel. In the last decade alone, flannel for boys' and students' suits has topped all other suit fabrics in the U.S. each year without exception. But last week fabled flannel was on the way out. In 1960 worsteds will be the most popular fabric for youthful suits, followed by hopsackings, with flannel toppling...
Bushy-bearded Bachelor George Hoiden Tinkham, unreconstructed Republican Congressman from Massachusetts who died last month at 85 after valiantly though unsuccessfully battling child-labor reform, left $2,000,000 to the Judge Baker Child Guidance Center in Boston, the largest single grant ever given to any organization dedicated to child psychology...
Died. Irving Addison Bacheller, 90, whose optimistic fresh-air tales of upstate New York's "North Country" (Eben Hoiden, Barrel of the Blessed Isles, Silas Strong) were pre-Jazz Age favorites; in White Plains, N.Y. At 40, Bacheller left his job as Sunday editor of Pulitzer's New York World to finish his third novel (his first two were flops), Eben Holden, which sold a million copies and brought him sudden fame...