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...would deny that this book is less appealing than one Riviera pear, let alone a full crate of them. But there are things to be said for it. It does not require refrigeration. It contains such handy and relatively inaccessible information as a complete list of all past Lampoon editors. It boasts two pictures of a clothed man who purports to be Martin Kaplan and one picture of a naked one who resembles Henry Kissinger. And it is consistently attractive and occasionally funny, which is more than you can say for most...
Choke Saver. Food inhalation has been a killer for centuries-all the more reason, Eller and Haugen say, for modern doctors to be familiar with the symptoms. A son of the Roman Emperor Claudius I is said to have choked to death on a pear he tossed playfully into the air and then swallowed. More recently, Mrs. Joan Skakel, Ethel Kennedy's sister-in-law, died after inhaling a chunk of meat in 1967. T.V. Soong, the brother of Madame Chiang Kaishek, choked to death in 1971 while dining, as did ex-Baseball Slugger Jimmy Foxx...
Ensconced at the center of his maze of companies like a pear-shaped Minotaur, Lloyd seemed, until lately, to have created an impregnable position for himself. But next fall Marlborough goes to court to defend itself in a civil suit almost without precedent in the art world. The heirs of the late abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, together with the New York State attorney general, are charging that Marlborough and the executors of Rothko's estate conspired between them to defraud the estate by grossly undervaluing the paintings...
Whether what's coming is a West Texas farm boy playing Bach fugues on a cactus pear or the White House staff singing footlight favorites, you can bet your quadraphonic tape deck that Farrell and his competitors will be on hand, those contract-signing ballpoints at the ready...
...turned the manuscript over to the Southern Review. According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury was written in "that ecstasy, that eager and joyous faith and anticipation of surprise." It also contained, he said, the only scene "which would ever move me very much: Caddy climbing the pear tree to look in the window at her grandmother's funeral while Quentin and Jason and Benjy and the Negroes looked up at the muddy seat of her drawers...