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...good, boozed-up bum. His sentimental eulogies of riffraff began with his first successful book. Tortilla Flat (1935), continued in Cannery Row (1945), and appear again in Sweet Thursday, which is really a return visit to Cannery Row. It reads like stuff that has been salvaged from the wastebasket. All the characters in Sweet Thursday (who live in Monterey, Calif., Steinbeck's home territory) have a lot in common: rotgut whisky in their bellies, leather in their hides, gold in their hearts and bats in their belfries...
...next step is the choice of which items are going to run in the magazine. Apart from editorial preference, part of the elimination comes in checking. An item may fall in the wastebasket because the facts do not check, or because it may turn out to be weeks or months old. There was, for example, an item from Arkansas that looked fine on paper: in South Africa, forest rangers had a problem with leopards, which were eating all the pigs, which had been imported to eat caterpillars, which had been eating pine trees, and the rangers still needed the leopards...
...hired by Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand. He was soon running "Chato's" news service, did so well that at 28 he was named editor of O Jornal, Chateaubriand's biggest and best morning paper. Lacerda dumped canned government propaganda editorials in the wastebasket, regularly broke the ironhanded censorship of Dictator Vargas. "You put me in a difficult position [with the government]," Chateaubriand told Lacerda one day. Snapped back Lacerda: "I put you in an easy one. I resign." Lacerda became a columnist on Rio's Correio da Hanha, and, says he, "we demoralized censorship by ignoring...
...Mildred Alberg and Tom Sand chose to drop entire scenes and such characters as the gravediggers and Fortinbras (whose lines were given to Horatio), rather than make internal cuts in the speeches. Only one of Hamlet's soliloquies ("How all occasions do inform against me . . .") landed in the wastebasket. Twelve minutes were devoted to commercials for Sponsor Hallmark Cards, which has twice sponsored Menotti's Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors...
...visitors "understood immediately." Understanding or not, most people had trouble deciding if it was safe to pick up Duchamp's catalogue for the show. Duchamp had them printed on huge ( 2 ft. by 3 ft.) sheets of tissue, crumpled them into balls and packed them in a wastebasket. People with long memories half expected that the crumpled balls would explode with a bang if touched. None...