Word: merkin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much bile in the publishing industry? "He's probably the most dishonest agent in the business," claims Scott Meredith, who is Norman Mailer's agent. "Wylie is to the literary business what Roy Cohn was to the legal business," snipes superagent Morton Janklow. "A sociopath," says Daphne Merkin, associate publisher at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
Arthur J. Merkin '85, who lives in the seven-member suite, said the problem was "cleared up" by yesterday afternoon...
According to Merkin, the police believed the fire was an arson because everyone in the suite was leaving by the time police and firemen arrived. The students either left for the football game at the University of Pennsylvania or went to classes, Merkin said...
...Merkin said he thought the fire was accidental, and that after questioning the members of the suite, the police were satisfied that it was not a case of arson...
FICTION: The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ Family Trade, James Carroll ∙ Forsaking All Others, Jimmy Breslin ∙ The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Peter Benchley ∙ The South Florida Book of the Dead, Robert Merkin ∙ Worldly Goods, Michael Korda