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...eagerly discuss the meaning of the title Light in August, Faulkner replied: "You know I never thought of that. It just sounded pretty.") The loving father vies with the tyrant who once told his daughter Jill: "Nobody remembers Shakespeare's children." Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech rang with hope: "I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail." Yet at practically the same time, he was telling Estelle: "The human race stinks...
...wife in this enduring homosexual partnership. She marketed, cooked, gardened, hired and fired the help (frequently), crocheted, talked with other wives while their husbands were listening to Stein. As Hemingway remarked, Toklas was also the executioner. When Gertrude was bored or insulted by someone, it was Alice who rang up and told the offender not to come round again...
...that Diva Maria Callas, 50, was to appear at her first New York recital in nine years, the phone rang at Impresario Sol Hurok's hotel. There was, said the operator, a lady friend of 20 years' standing who wished to speak to him. "That's not nearly long enough," said Hurok, refusing to take the call. He got the message anyway. Callas was canceling because of a sore throat. The 2,800 fans, some of whom had paid as much as $100 a ticket, were disappointed, even tearful, but not altogether surprised. Maria had done...
...weeks ago, guests began arriving at Iker's home in Chevy Chase, Md., for an 8 o'clock dinner party. "I had just finished reporting for a full-page box on John Love, Nixon's chief energy adviser. As the first guest arrived, the phone rang, and I was notified that Love was to be replaced by Simon. As we passed by each other at the front door, I told my guests to help themselves to a drink." Three hours later, Iker had filed for a late-starting TIME story on Simon and arrived...
...painless though. The bell rang, the class piled out, and I was about ready to make my exit, when a little blond-haired boy poked...