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...debit side, the comparisons that follow are likely to be odious. Susan Cheever, 36, accepts this mixed blessing with considerable panache. She never pretends to write like her old man, John, the sage of Ossining, but she alludes regularly and playfully to his imposing presence. When her heroine, Salley Gardens (nee Potter), gets married, one of the wedding guests is J.C. Salley's father, a Columbia University professor, commits an unacknowledged theft from a Cheever short story when commenting on his older brother: "What can you do with a man like that?" Even an apparently innocent comment by Salley...
Such in-joking helps distinguish Looking for Work from the 8 trillion or so recent novels about young women trying to find themselves. The chief point of the exercise seems to be fun. No matter how much she protests, Salley is a confirmed flibbertigibbet, her name itself an amusingly pointless steal from a poem by Yeats ("Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet"). Life has given her every advantage, including just the right number of trendy neuroses. Though she claims to spend a large portion of her story job hunting, what she really looks...
...Lucy's close friend, Mrs. Eulalie Salley, 82, of Aiken, who recently said that Roosevelt was in love with Lucy, but termed "ridiculous" the hint of some thing scandalous in the relationship, had, if not the last word, at least the most powerful...
...have had dozens of reporters descend on me since this thing came up," said Mrs. Salley, "and I have had the pleasure of telling each of them that Jonathan Daniels is a skunk...
After Daniels' book appeared last week, a close friend of Lucy Mercer's, Mrs. Eulalie Salley, 82, declaring that "to hint that there was anything scandalous in their relationship is perfectly ridiculous," said: "Of course he was in love with her. So was every man who knew Lucy." Mrs. Salley believes nonetheless that Roosevelt would have divorced Eleanor to marry Lucy, "but Lucy was a staunch Catholic and would never have married a divorced man." As Daniels points out in his book, there were other factors mitigating against a Roosevelt breakup, including F.D.R.'s "political ambition plus...