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This week the Review celebrated the fifth anniversary of its founding by peddling a 28,000-copy issue featuring a long, intimate interview with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was obtained with an enterprise characteristic of Review's methods. Young (31) Editor George Plimpton introduced himself to Hemingway in the bar of Paris' Hotel Ritz, spent two weeks watching bullfights with him in Madrid, later flew down to Cuba for long hours of talk in Hemingway's Finca Vigia home, broken by long hours in a fishing boat with the old man and the sea. The resulting interview...
...Paris Review's main attraction for the Harvard audience will be its air of being a literary Alumni Bulletin, for its masthead is sprinkled with names that of late graced the Advocate, the 'Poon, and (caveat emptor!), the Yale Daily News. Its editor and chief backer, George A. Plimpton, headed the Lampoon four years ago, its managing editor, Thomas Guinzburg, held the same position at the Yalie Daily in 1950, while Peter Matthiessen, the fiction editor, recently taught creative writing in New Haven. Harold Humes and Thomas Spang of the business staff are local products, and Train, noted...
...first in the laboratory by Dr. Helmut A. Zander of Tufts College Dental School. Then schoolchildren in Walpole, Mass, were used as human guinea pigs. In the first year, 216 children at the Stone School, who used powder containing penicillin, got 55% fewer cavities than 162 children at the Plimpton School, who used a powder identical in ingredients except for the penicillin. In the second year, the Stone School showed 54% fewer cavities than Plimpton, which seemed to prove that mouth bacteria did not become resistant to penicillin...
...Deacons had to clinch the cup the hard way, as Eliot's George Plimpton limited Kirkland to three hits, but was the victim of shoddy support. Jim Gabler, Deacon workhorse, allowed only four hits in receiving credit...
Unquestionably, the best writing in the magazine is that of its two veterans, George Plimpton and John Train. "Dean Charles," by Plimpton, is a series of lectures written by a family lawyer to a man whose father left him a collection of stuffed animals. Also by Plimpton is an original description of a guest lecture with sides (well drawn by S. C. Welch). The Lampoon is at its best when it provides illustrations for its stories. In this particular case, the fine line pictures add greatly to the humor of the text. Train's article, "Pour Le Sport...