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...evening of Aug. 30, while my daughter was attending a political meeting at her film studio, I was sitting alone in my study reading William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which had come from a London bookshop with which I had an account. The house was very quiet. There was not the slightest sound or movement anywhere, almost as if everything in the house were waiting helplessly for its own destruction. Suddenly the doorbell began to ring incessantly. At the same time, there was a furious pounding of many fists on my front gate, accompanied...
...powers of persuasion, he got "concurrence" from the board on The Catcher in the Rye--"that rare miracle of fiction," Kip called it, "a human being created out of ink, paper and the imagination." Kip was also a master of self-deprecation. When a memoir written by octogenarian William Shirer came in, Kip, a fellow octogenarian, fussed: "One should never reach the age of 80 because by then you realize your life is not worth a good goddam." After hearing all his projects in recent years, I finally got up the nerve to say, "You ought to write your...
...novelists would dare invent the stories of these correspondents: Cecil Brown (one of the long-forgotten Murrow boys) plunging off a sinking ship into the South China Sea; Eric Sevareid parachuting out of a doomed plane over the Himalayas and being rescued by a tribe of headhunters; William L. Shirer risking imprisonment by providing the first accounts of France's capitulation to Hitler; Charles Collingwood, the high-living, womanizing dandy, demonstrating incredible courage during the North Africa campaign. Dominating the story from London is Murrow himself, bringing the Battle of Britain and the Blitz back to an indifferent America, helping...
...promptly fell in love. "There's nothing like running your fingers over the letters on a newly printed page," he says. "It enhances the way you experience the words." At age 16 he leased his own letterpress, and Thornwillow was born. His first coup was printing historian William L. Shirer's memoir of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima. Since then Thornwillow has published works by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Helmut Kohl. This week it brings out The Presidency by Hugh Sidey. The book is available through Thornwillow Press in New York City; $300 leather, $75 cloth...
...first publishing effort was a limited-edition children's book entitled Hello Sun. Since then, Pontifell has published books by Walter Cronkite, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and William Shirer, among others...