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...LATE JOHN MARQUAND...
...Marquand was one of the shrewdest and best popular fiction writers of the century. He longed to write a modern Madame Bovary, but instead produced solid novels about upper middle class entanglements and sagas of newcomers struggling to join the ranks. His best books-The Late George Apley. Point of No Return-are subtle social and moral commentaries...
AFTER being interviewed by TIME'S Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, the late author John P. Marquand likened her probing technique to psychoanalysis. The comparison was twice apt. Galvin strives to get behind her subject's façade, and she has long been interested in the behavioral sciences. These qualities made her an obvious choice for a principal role in establishing our Behavior section three years ago. As our national Behavior correspondent, she has contributed to most of the major stories the section has run. Virginia Adams was also a charter member of the department, first as its researcher...
Sanctuary is continuing its search for a temporary site for a hostel. "There is a possibility of additional space we may be able to sublet from the University in the same general area as the Iroquois Club," John R. Marquand, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dudley House and chairman of the board of Sanctuary, said last night...
...classify John F. Kennedy as a "perhaps" WASP. But even more regrettable than such thesis twisting is the author's failure to recognize that the case against the WASP has already been made-by WASPS. From Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James through Sinclair Lewis and J.P. Marquand, the WASP novelist has chosen as a favorite theme the moral decay within his breed...