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...Fields's contemporaries thought such stuff sublime, he was nevertheless able to convince anyone that he was a poet who happened to be a publisher, not a publisher who played at poetry. The result was that authors felt Fields was on their side. But some of Tryon's best scenes show the lofty-minded Fields and his purehearted poets haggling about percentages...
PARNASSUS CORNER by W. S. Tryon. 384 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...astronaughts turn pale, drop their eyes, examine their nails, twiddle their fingers, fiddle with buttons, brush their sleeves, blow their noses. All at once an astro-chimp, who happens to be standing by, grabs a fork and playfully jabs one of these reluctant Shepards of kingdom come (Tom Tryon) in the behind. "Yeeee-ooww!" he squalls. "That's our man!" the general bawls...
...Other White House fathers: John Adams, Nathaniel Fillmore, Jesse Root Grant, George Tryon Harding...
...classmates: longtime Army Coach Earl Blaik; Thomas D. White, now Air Force Chief of Staff; Lieut. General Francis W. Farrell, now Seventh Army Commander in Germany; and General Henry Hodes. U.S. Army Commander in Chief in Europe 1956-59-Second Lieut. Lemnitzer married Honesdale's dark-eyed Katherine Tryon just before he was assigned to the first of his two tours (1924-25, 1931-34) with the Coast Artillery batteries on Corregidor. Their honeymoon cruise was made aboard a troopship so crowded that husbands and wives had to travel segregated in five-passenger cabins...