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...WILLIAM ROSENBERG...
...such charge can be brought against Doctorow's bravura effort. The Book of Daniel, transparently based on the Rosenberg case, is a bold novel that, all things considered, is surprisingly successful. Doctorow's biggest gamble was sinking his energies into the Rosenberg case in the first place. Not that successful fiction cannot spring from old newspapers, as Dostoevsky and Dreiser both demonstrated. But the Rosenberg trial was a kind of drawn-out, draining and rather grisly national ordeal...
...nothing for him and his clerks to look up and read all the cases in all the states on any given legal point," says a former clerk. Jack Weinstein, himself now a federal district judge. Adds Columbia Law Professor Maurice Rosenberg, another ex-Fuld clerk: "He is definitely a 40-draft man. He'll write and rewrite endlessly. His style is simple and direct. It's rather like telling them you're going to tell them, then telling them, then telling them you've told them...
...process, he became one of the first American examples of the artist as celebrity, wielding what Harold Rosenberg felicitously called "the shady lyricism of the Sunday supplement." He was blessed (and afterward dogged) by the circumstance of being everyone's idea of the hipster from the Bronx-a mean blade, good with a saxophone or a motorcycle, the flamboyant, randy and infinitely dexterous picaro of Tenth Street. But by the end of the '60s, his virtues had to an extent rebounded on his reputation. His astounding skill as a traditional, realistic draftsman looked vaguely suspect to some critics...
...four inherited his ailment, including one daughter who passed it on to seven of her nine children. Last month the N.G.F. staged a reunion in South Dakota for 95 of Vandenberg's descendants, who came from five states and Argentina. On hand were Drs. William Nyhan and Roger Rosenberg of the University of California School of Medicine at San Diego, plus Dr. Lawrence Schut, a Minneapolis neurologist who is one of the unaffected members of the Swier family. With the family's permission, a crew from WCCO-TV of Minneapolis, Minn., flew in to film the gathering...