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...National Guard Armory for an audience of 5,000-some of whom complained that they had bought tickets only after some arm-twisting from the President himself. The President made a small speech, saying that "art knows no national boundaries," since Jack London, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are read in the Soviet Union, while Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Pasternak are read in the U.S. While the whole affair was a financial success, it was a cultural flop, especially for those in the National Armory. The acoustics were so bad, the atmosphere so close and the program so poor...
...Travels with Charley, Steinbeck...
...Fools, Porter (3) 4. Where Love Has Gone, Robbins (7) 5. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (6) 6. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (4) 7. The Prize, Wallace (5) 8. The Thin Red Line, Jones (8) 9. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (9) 10. The Reivers, Faulkner (10) NONFICTION 1. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 2. Silent Spring, Carson (1) 3. The Rothschilds, Morton (3) 4 My Life in Court, Nizer (4) 5! O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (5) 6 The Blue Nile, Moorehead (7) 7. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (6) 8. Final Verdict, St. Johns 9. Letters From the Earth, Twain...
TIME has nothing good to say of John Steinbeck and stresses his "flawed talent." What talent or genius is not flawed? Even Shakespeare is full of flaws...
Died. Timothy Costello, 67, shillelagh-sporting Manhattan pubkeeper and longtime confidant of such writers as Hemingway, Steinbeck, O'Hara, and most visibly, James Thurber, who adorned Costello's Third Avenue saloon with his free-swinging sketches of the eternal war between the sexes; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...