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...part of the Program for Harvard College it published "College in a Yard: Minutes by Thirty-Nine Harvard Men," a collection of noted alumni's writings on "What Harvard Has Meant to Me." Among the contributors were Brooks Atkinson, Van Wvck Brooks '08, John Dos Passos '16, John P. Marquand '15, Elward Streeter '14, and John F. Kennedy...
...secret of a long-buried treasure. Once back in Macao, he develops a case of justifiable paranoia when he is set upon by a chic Chinese princess (Nancy Kwan) who keeps sticking out her tong at him. Following this he is mugged and bugged by a vicious racketeer (Christian Marquand) and an avaricious police inspector...
...Wings cigarettes of the Depression to the melodies of forgotten songs and long-silenced dance bands. The author's dialogue rings as accurately as John O'Hara's, and the New England pride of place and family are handled with the sureness of J. P. Marquand. The rhythm of the seas moves through the novel's pages, from an idyllic postwar voyage down the New England coast to the final, brilliant set piece, a Caribbean cruise over which Dave's doom gathers like a rifle slowly being sighted down a sunny avenue. A misty morning...
...cover take it so ebulliently. Industrialist-Art Collector Norton Simon compared his sessions to a "threeday physical exam at a clinic. You know you'll be poked, probed and punctured, and you'd better tell all because they'll find out anyway." The late Author John Marquand told Reporter Ruth Mehrtens that the interviews were better than being psychoanalyzed. Oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau recalls with a shudder, and some slight exaggeration, that he was rarely alone for three months: "Your reporters followed me everywhere. Once I tried to hide in a motel, but they found...
...ager is introspective, resigned, and rebellious all at the same time. Modern literature and drama vividly depict his psychic desperation, from Bellow's Herzog to Miller's After the Fall, from Albee's Virginia Woolf to Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence, from the novels of John Marquand to the novels of John O'Hara. John Cheever, who writes of middle age with autumnal sadness, is its prose laureate. In O Youth and Beauty!, he tells of the ritual of Cash Bentley, a former track star turned 40 who, when the Saturday-night suburban party was guttering...