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Distinct Speech. With the hypnotized fascination of an outsider, O'Hara still writes about the Eastern establishment-gentry who can tell, from a snarled sentence heard in the night, not only that the speaker is Harvard, Racquet Club and drunk, but what brand of 20-year-old Scotch he has been drinking. The fascination has endured for years, and so has Hemingway's crack that someone should take up a collection and send O'Hara to Yale...
...posh Manhattan flat and living off the fatheads of the land. The flat is furnished with a bathtub (sawed in half to make a sofa), a refrigerator (containing a pair of shoes), a telephone (in a suitcase), a pink cat (without a name) and a bottle of Scotch (for wetting Holly's whistle and Scotch-and-watering the flowers). And every Thursday. Holly dutifully goes up the river to Sing Sing, where she visits a darling old narcotics trafficker named Sally Tomato. She finds it perfectly sweet that Sally should pay her $100 a week to come talk...
Since then, it has acquired some gifts that have little to do with its chosen field. Mrs. Lang gave it a collection of American Indian art that is one of the best in the East. It has a collection of Scotch, Irish and French silverware-and 600 Chinese snuff bottles. But these items came by bequest; the museum uses its own funds to buy U.S. paintings, drawings and etchings...
...been unable to awaken him. A squad of physicians was summoned, Menderes' stomach was pumped and the contents flown to Istanbul by helicopter for analysis. Newsmen were invited to view Menderes-lying on a small iron cot in blue pajamas with a feeding tube up his nose-to scotch any speculation about mistreatment. Istanbul's medical report indicated an overdose of sleeping pills. Menderes, who had complained of insomnia, had been given pills by prison doctors, had probably hoarded a near-lethal cache in the lining of his suit. Only a few days before, Menderes had observed...
...sensitive, obsessed with words, hating what seems phony, dabbling in mysticism?and incidents in the author's life turn up later in his fiction. Like the Glass children, Salinger was born in New York to a Jewish father and a Christian mother (to soothe her in-laws-to-be, Scotch-Irish Marie Jillich changed her name to Miriam when she married Sol Salinger). But Sol was, and is, a prosperous importer of hams and cheeses, and any connection he or Miriam ever had with show business is well hidden by the Salinger counterintelligence apparatus...