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...Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps by calling her "lass," a practice he has also abandoned. The Green Book, the Social List of Washington, maintains extraordinarily strict rules. Separated couples like White House Aide Hamilton Jordan and his wife are excised from The Green Book by the register's mistress, Jean Shaw Murray, daughter of the late Carolyn Hagner Shaw, who presided over it for 34 years. Carolyn Hagner Shaw was a subtle and funny arbiter who could savor the preposterous in Washington's manners. Once a woman addressed an urgent query to her: Could she, the woman asked, fulfill her deceased...
...tails? Was it proper to do so even though the funeral was to take place before 6 o'clock in the evening? Mrs. Shaw granted her approval...
...rough-and-ready world of prizefighting, Gene Tunney was unique. Self-educated and fiercely proud, he remained determinedly aloof from the Damon Runyon characters of the sport's golden age. George Bernard Shaw, an avid fight fan, was more to Tunney's taste, despite the fact that the heavyweight refused an offer to appear in Shaw's boxing play, Cashel Byron's Profession. He believed that the playwright had portrayed fighters as simple and dimwitted, and Gene Tunney was neither...
FICTION: Adjacent Lives, Ellen Schwamm∙Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan Lee∙Short Stories, Irwin Shaw∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever∙The World According to Garp, John Irving War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
Short Stories: Five Decades speak exclusively in the past tense. Because of them, Irwin Shaw's claims for redemption can be written in the future definite. -Stefan Kanfer