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CHECKPOINT by Charles W. Thayer. 303 pp. Harper...
Like many another weanling career diplomat, Charles Thayer knew Berlin before the war. Afterward, as Foreign Service officer, unofficial State Department troubleshooter and finally, journalist, he often went back. Now he has written an international spy thriller. To no one's surprise, the book is about a man who served in prewar Berlin as a weanling career diplomat and then, as a journalist and State Department troubleshooter, gets called back to help out during a Berlin Wall crisis...
...best articles I have read in many months. It was sympathetic, objective, friendly, and expressed a fitting admiration for one of our outstanding authors in the U.S. today. THAYER A. WESTLAKE Chester...
...held forth. In his early teens, he sneaked off to Boston, where he hung around that citadel of burlesque, the Old Howard, cadging an occasional pat from the strippers. Cheever's academic career, in which he never took much interest, ended abruptly when he was expelled from Thayer Academy at the age of 17-chiefly for neglecting his studies and smoking...
...sick it would not have been so bad. Leaving because you are angry and frustrated is different. It is not a good thing to do. It is bad for everyone." The frustrations seem to have been not much more than the military traditions of the school (named for Sylvanus Thayer, the "father" of West Point), and the fact that the English teachers were running on about Wordsworth and Galsworthy while Cheever was precociously reading Proust and Joyce...