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...EITA selection in his first three years at Harvard, Stanley, a senior from Rye, N.Y., can best be described as an aggressive baseline player and a self-motivator on the court. Many people have compared Stanley to a younger Jimmy Connors...
...Salinger may not talk much to reporters, but the author of The Catcher in the Rye does talk to his lawyers. Last year he directed them to halt publication by Random House of an unauthorized biography by Ian Hamilton. The reclusive Salinger objected to the book's use of excerpts and summaries from scores of private letters he had written. Last week (a busy one for literary law watchers after the Bell Jar settlement) a Manhattan federal appeals court ordered a preliminary injunction blocking the book "in its present form...
...appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court or try to issue the book in a more watered-down form. Salinger naturally had no comment on the court's decision. Holden Caulfield had already spoken for him, after all. In the opening lines of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger's captious hero warns the reader, "I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography." And not going to let anyone else tell it either...
...Damn it! Why the hell are you asking my name?" is Ingrid M. Geerken's imitation of "Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger. "Phonies are always asking crap like that. I don't know why, but they get a goddamn kick out of asking people who they are and what their names are and if they have a permanent mailing address. Those phony bastards really kill me. They want to know what your goddamn address is so that they can send you a goddamn letter saying that you're not good enough for them. Things like that really depress...
...wealth, Tisch lives relatively modestly and quietly. With Wilma ("Billie"), his wife of 38 years, he shares a Manhattan apartment and a suburban house in Rye, N.Y., overlooking Long Island Sound. The Loews chairman never smokes, only occasionally drinks and usually plays tennis twice each weekend. "He always wants to win," observes Investment Banker Bernard Stein, one of his regular partners. Tisch also enjoys showing guests first-run % movies on a full-size screen. Friends are devoted to him. Says Stein: "If I were in trouble and had to make a phone call, he's the guy I'd call...