Word: webs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aline Bernstein, who became Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again, did have a husband, although the biography skips by him in one hurried sentence. Theodore Bernstein looked away while his wife entered wholeheartedly into a love affair with the 25-year-old Wolfe, set him up in a studio on Manhattan's Eighth Street, cooked gourmet meals for him while he wrote, helped add to the slim support he was getting from his mother and from his teaching job at New York University, and above all gave...
...Scribner "assembly line." Wolfe cut himself free to prove that he could go it on his own. He died of brain tuberculosis four months after submitting a 1,200,000-word manuscript to his new editor at Harper's, who sliced it up to make The Web and the Rock, You Can't Go Home Again, and a book of short stories. In this last torrent of words, the influence of Maxwell Perkins seems badly wanting...
...displace the Southern Pacific in the No. 2 spot, and rank only below the Pennsylvania. Another road deeply interested in the C. & O. merger is the New York Central. It has been talking to the two roads about a three-way merger that would make the biggest U.S. railroad, web the Eastern states with a network touching almost all major cities...
...Web & Wine. For new sport, Cousteau turned to prowling about the skeletons of ships on the ocean floor. Unless the ship is ancient, he has no interest in salvaging anything. He just wants to look: "I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral...
...recent years Cousteau has put himself more and more at the service of science. He resigned from the navy in 1956 with the rank of capitaine des corvettes, now sits at the center of a bewildering web of profitmaking, nonprofit and governmental enterprises. He is director of Monaco's first-rate Museum of Oceanography, founded in 1910 by Prince Albert I of Monaco, the great-grandfather of Free Diver Prince Rainier. Cousteau is also head of France's Underwater Research Center. He is backed in part by the French government, and in part by Washington...