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...twice-married Muriel Marston and twice-married Richard Joshua Reynolds, it appeared that true love had come at last. She was a graduate of the New York Times society desk; he was heir to the Reynolds Tobacco Co. fortune, trying to make do on $31,672 a week (after taxes). They met at the 1950 Knickerbocker charity ball in Manhattan (she had just divorced Husband No. 2; he was still married to Wife No. 2), were wed in 1952. She fondly called him "Buck Rabbit." He endearingly called her "Doe Rabbit...
...year-old girl with soft brown eyes and schizophrenia. She is split into two well-defined personalities. As Lisa she is a silly four-year-old who talks all the time but only in a "word salad" seasoned with rhyme ("A big fat sow-and how and how"); as Muriel she is a demure adolescent who communicates in writing because she can't talk...
...with steady devotion, and one day a miracle happens. Lisa comes sidling up to David and says shyly: "Me, the same; Lisa, the name." Startled but pleased, David replies: "Me, the same; David, the name." After that they often talk, though always in rhyme-when they talk in prose, Muriel comes back, and Lisa doesn't like Muriel. But she adores David, and he is half in love with...
...hand of a giant clock, tries with all his might-and fails. Next day he says to her tenderly: "I see a girl who looks like a pearl. A pearl of a girl." She glows like a pearl. Then all at once Lisa stops bothering about rhyme, and Muriel makes a drawing that shows her two personalities united in an all-inclusive...
Gentle Erskine Caldwell. Untermeyer not only wrote for Modern Masters but serves as Crowell-Collier's talent scout in rounding up other writers. Among them: Critic Mark Van Doren, Playwright William Saroyan, Poets John Ciardi, Conrad Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches...