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...lips are sealed," said corporation memberand author Calvin M. Trillin...
...still comes into the office almost every day. New staffers frequently ask about the identity of the reticent 85-year-old with the soft North Carolinian accent. "A cult figure" is the usual answer. Sometimes they are referred to the dedication in a book by humorist Calvin Trillin: "To the New Yorker reporter who set the standard -- Joseph Mitchell." Hardly anyone else refers to Mitchell as a New Yorker reporter these days. After all, he has not published a word in 27 years...
...Trillin's return to the South constitutes a double homecoming of sorts. Hired by TIME as a correspondent in 1960, he spent a year in Atlanta, then moved to New York City, where he worked in several sections before writing about national affairs. He left TIME in 1963 to join The New Yorker. In 1980 Trillin published the novel Floater, which depicts the journalistic misadventures of Fred Becker, a newsmagazine writer who "floats" from section to section. Among the book's characters are Doc Kennedy, a medicine writer who keeps coming down with the ailments that he writes about...
...didn't write it as an expose," Trillin says with a chuckle. "I actually liked being a floater." Naturally, the experience of working for TIME has evolved since Trillin last did it 25 years ago. "The magazine is much more open in terms of the writing now," he says. "The idea of using an outside writer like me to do a piece was unheard of back then." Still, Trillin learned that even at TIME, some things never change. Says he: "Even after all these years, writing for TIME made me feel as if I'd floated into the Essay section...
...service, the Vice President must offer his own vision to America. Will the Reagan legacy harm or help him? -- "I' ve been underestimated over and over again," Bush tells TIME. "He' s a blank slate," says Michael Dukakis. -- Garry Wills on the rise of the ultimate yes- man. -- Calvin Trillin discovers a newer, prepackaged New Orleans. -- See NATION...