Word: morrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publishing world. Rejection slips again crowded Ross's mailbox. "While your prose style is very lucid," wrote Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, "the content of the book didn't inspire the level of enthusiasm ..." After a long delay, Random House sent a form letter, and an editor at William Morrow postscripted a consolation: "Sorry, I liked the opening gambit. Why don't you find an agent...
This heartfelt homage concluded a week in which the circumstances of Rockefeller's collapse had provoked some unusual speculation. In discussing the matter with reporters shortly after Rockefeller's death on the night of Jan. 26, his longtime press secretary Hugh Morrow said that only a security aide was present when Rockefeller was stricken at 10:15 p.m. while working on an art book at his office in Rockefeller Center. The phone call that summoned police, said Morrow, had been placed by an "unidentified woman neighbor." It soon turned out that Morrow had his facts wrong...
...whether an hour had elapsed between the time that Rockefeller died and the time of the call. To judge from Marshack's somewhat hyterical conversation, which was taped by the police, Rocky's seizure had just occurred. That also was the verdict of the medical examiner. Morrow, who was not present, issued a series of corrections to his previous accounts, then declined further comment. Marshack went into seclusion...
...Morris West Morrow; 324 pages...
...about: less emphasis on heavy, masking sauces, greater reliance on the fresh flesh, fish, fowl and vegetables that can be encouraged to speak for themselves. Jean and Pierre Troisgros most elegantly practice the new cookery at their three-star restaurant in the Rhone Valley. In The Nouvelle Cuisine (Morrow; 254 pages; $12.95), the chers frères range easily from red mullet with beef marrow to that little-known marvel, coupe-jarret, which consists of five different meats (pork, veal, beef, lamb and chicken) cooked in one kettle...