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Ernest Hemingway met A. E. Hotchner in 1948, and the world-famous novelist and the relatively unknown magazine writer soon became fast friends. They went fishing together in Cuba, watched bullfights in Spain, hunted the pheasant country of Idaho, and toured France. "Papa" and "Hotch" got along so well together that Papa gave his friend the right to adapt some of his novels and short stories for movies and TV. And because they were inseparable companions, Hotch became aware of Papa's gradually increasing periods of depression, his dark and suicidal moods. There was a time when Hemingway tried...
...this, and more, went into the pages of Papa Hemingway, Hotchner's story of the novelist's final years, which Random House plans to publish in April. The book bristles with intimate details of Hemingway's slow deterioration. On reading the galleys, Mary says, she suffered "a traumatic shock." In a letter to Random House Board Chairman Bennett Cerf, she accused Hotchner of "shameless penetration into my private life and the usurpation of it for money." She demanded a long list of changes in the book. The author and the publisher agreed to many of them...
Invasion of Privacy. Mary's next move was to ask the New York State Supreme Court to enjoin publication. The book invaded her privacy, she said, and it violated the confidential relationship that existed between Hotch and Papa. But her main argument was that it appropriated her literary property. The law holds that the author of a letter maintains ownership of its contents, and Mary claimed that her husband's estate, of which she is both executrix and beneficiary, maintained ownership of the material Hotchner had used in his book...
...sensible shoes, sturdy capes and shapeless hats. Toddlers are carried. Teen-agers desert friends and transistor radios. The whole family trudges, pausing now and then for a spell of tiefatmen (deep breathing), to say hello to the Müllers (walking in the other direction), or to let Papa train his binoculars on an interesting bird, until in the late afternoon everyone collapses at a cafe for hot chocolate or coffee and pastry...
Haiti makes a perfect setting for such refugees from reality: an "evil slum floating a few miles from Florida," fretted with armed roadblocks, policed by bogeymen in black sunglasses -Papa Doc's Tontons Macoute...