Word: maynards
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Reclusive lovers of talented youngsters, beware: one day they may get a publishing deal. JOYCE MAYNARD, who lived with J.D. SALINGER for nine months when she was 18 and he 53, has written about it. Surprise, surprise--it turns out that the J.D. she knew back in 1974 was odd and not very congenial. In excerpts from At Home in the World in September's Vanity Fair, we learn that Salinger was a picky eater who didn't like his food cooked at more than 150[degrees]F, who made himself throw up after he ate junk food and encouraged...
...most complete published portraits of reclusive author J.D. Salinger, an ex-lover reveals that he locked his manuscripts in a safe, obsessed about food (and vomiting), strongly believed writers should not become famous, and loved TV sitcoms -- especially those involving Mayberry and the Mertzes. Author Joyce Maynard had a nine-month affair with Salinger 26 years ago, when he was 53 and she was 18. In her book "At Home in the World," to be published by St. Martin's Press, she provides a look at the reclusive author of the iconic 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye," about...
...last week's congressional hearing, called to weigh the impact of Venter's venture on the Genome Project, Washington University geneticist Maynard Olson predicted that the Venter map will have more than 100,000 "serious gaps"--regions where the fragments are improperly aligned. "Yes, you'll get a holey map," agrees Rockefeller University professor Norton Zinder, who was chair of the first Genome Project advisory committee. "But we will fill the holes." He anticipates substantial benefits from Venter's plan. "Craig," he says, "has jump-started the sequencing...
...picture. Gilligan got busted for weed possession. The narcs caught Denver after he signed for a package containing about 25 grams of marijuana sent to him mail order, and officers searched his home, finding more marijuana and "marijuana paraphernalia." Sounds more like the kind of thing Maynard G. Krebs would...
...GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY (1936) This study was John Maynard Keynes' major work. Not intended for the public, it had vast public consequences. By positing that government spending could revive sagging economies, Keynes rewrote the rules of free-market capitalism...