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Lowell did not return to Harvard. Instead he followed Ransom to Kenyon College, where he formed lasting friendships with Peter Taylor and Randall Jarrell. From that point onward, his life becomes a turbulent, often sensational tale. He married writer Jean Stafford; after a miserable six years they split. For the remainder of his days. Lowell fell in and out of love with various women--his 20-year marriage to Elizabeth Hardwick was stable only in its endurance...
...Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, he joined the student dramatic society after being kicked off the second-string football team because of a barroom squabble. His drama professor, James Michael, remembers "having trouble not casting Paul as the lead in every play," but Newman remembers being a very bad actor. His self-assessment then and now is of a very slow study without much natural talent for anything except concentration and tenacity. "I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor," he recalls. "Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed...
After graduating from Kenyon in 1949, he spent a season doing summer stock in Williams Bay, Wis. The following year he moved to Woodstock, Ill., joined the Woodstock Players, met Actress Jacqueline Witte and married. He had appeared in 17 Players productions by May of 1950, when the news came that his father had died. With Jackie, by then pregnant with their son Scott, he returned to Shaker Heights to become a salesman in the store...
...reeling from the worst year for auto sales since 1961, have been hardest hit by the strike. They had hoped to use the fall games to help boost business. Chrysler, for example, had allocated at least $15 million for professional football advertising. Says Bill Tenebruso, senior vice president of Kenyon & Eckhardt, the New York City ad agency that handles the Chrysler account: "The strike has hurt us a great deal. You really can't replace the football audience. You can try, but it's almost impossible to do." Sums up Thomas Staudt, general marketing manager for Chevrolet...
...time toThe Paris Review as an arena for literary brawling, in which "everyone threw his poems into a basket, and then they held a round-robin to see who could say the most sarcastic things about the other man's work." After two years in Cambridge, Lowell transferred to Kenyon College. His parents, furious that he would not return to Uncle Abbott's school, sent him to a psychiatrist...