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...exceedingly competent editors. Albert Erskine Jr., 55, was Faulkner's editor, now handles John O'Hara and James Michener. Jason Epstein, 38, is in charge of W. H. Auden and Norman O. Brown. Epstein surveys his duties with cynical modesty. "You're just a valet," he says. "The suit comes in and you adjust the buttons. Any role you play is accidental. You were at the right place at the right time." But most authors consider the editorial function a little more important than that. In a left-handed compliment, Critic Leslie Fiedler once described the typical...
Genius v. Vanity. After a stretch as a seminarian and a valet, Rousseau moved to Paris, where he lived as a music copyist. Somewhere along the line, tramping the road to Vincennes, he underwent a sort of religious experience, and concluded that revealing the truth about himself would reveal the truth to all other men. It cannot be said that he was very good at it, though the poetic cloud with which he haloed his life story is luminous to this...
...really rich man, he is not about to send his faithful retainer off into manufacturing. Oil Millionaire Nubar Gulbenkian, who will be paying S.E.T. for his three grooms, three gardeners, two secretaries, butler and valet, says, "What, sack the poor devils? Good heavens, no. I'll just have...
FAMILY AFFAIR (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). A globe-trotting bachelor (Brian Keith) and his urbane valet (Sebastian Cabot) become unprepared parents to the bachelor's orphaned twin nieces and nephew...
...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).* Steed enrolls in a school for gentlemen's gentlemen, and graduates valet-dictorian...