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Susan Harris Rye...
...Honolulu security guard and flew to New York with money borrowed from his Japanese wife. After getting Lennon's autograph, he killed his hero with four hollow .38-cal. bullets. He was arrested moments later, carrying a copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye...
...born-again Christian, told the court that God had told him to plead guilty, and so he did, against the advice of his lawyers. At his sentencing last week, he announced a vow of silence and offered, as "my final spoken words," a passage from The Catcher in the Rye: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. And, I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have...
...This is no cheeky celebrity-jock special for weekend TV. His mentor is the most successful "serious" young writer in America. Few novelists are rewarded financially as well as critically. Fewer still make cultural waves. In the '50s J.D. Salinger produced Catcher in the Rye, the Huckleberry Finn for the Silent Generation. Readers in the '60s and early '70s rallied around Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, with its "karass," and the casually philosophical "So it goes," from Slaughterhouse-Five. The end of the decade be longed to Irving and Garpomania: a choice of paperback...
...machine with which you mow your lawn is, of course, your paramour.) It has long been called Survival City. Another monicker was Mobtown, after its citizens' proclivity for rioting. Because it was long famed for 50 beer, 100 crabcakes and 150 rye whisky, it was more affectionately dubbed Nickel City. Bawlamer, 252 years old, was traditionally a blue-collar, beer-and-shot town, built on 19th century technologies, mainly steel and shipbuilding, that have since trailed off, as has its population. Of its 780,000 people, down from 939,000 in 1960, almost 55% are now black, of whom...