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...Salinger ranks are holding tight, albeit as quietly as their famous client. Marcia Paul, the New York City lawyer who represented Salinger in the 60 Years Later case, had nothing to say when contacted. "I really don't have any comment about anything," she maintained. Likewise, his agent, Phyllis Westberg, is a woman of few words: "J.D. Salinger books will stay in print. I have no further comment...
...came along, says the Rev. Chris Nelson of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minn., "the idea was for ministers to proclaim the gospel and let people figure out what to do with it in their daily lives. Now we are far more application oriented." When Bethlehem Lutheran member Jean Westberg lost her job as a marketing executive three years ago, she found inspiration in Warren's teaching that people who want to be servants of God should "think more about others than about themselves," and she accepted a job as interim executive director for the Episcopal ministry at the University...
...Salinger's agent and the words sound ridiculous coming out of my mouth. Who the hell am I to speak to such people? After the young woman grills me very aggressively as to why I'm calling, she makes the remarkable decision to hand me over to Phyllis Westberg, J.D. Salinger's agent (J.D. Salinger's agent!), and now I'm mumbling and stuttering as if I were talking to the man himself...
...John Westberg, 14, was skateboarding outside his house in Redford Township, Mich., when his path was blocked by two neighborhood boys on bicycles. There were angry words. Then John's father, Lawrence Westberg, went marching over to the home of the boys' father, William Scherrer. Westberg claims he simply shouted, "Goddamn it, Bill, start controlling your kids." Scherrer, on the other hand, swears that Westberg called him a "rotten, f- sonofabitch!" Scherrer called the police, who arrested Westberg. The charge: violating the township's ordinance on disorderly persons, which prohibits, among other things, "indecent, insulting or immoral...
Even in an age when almost anything goes, epithetwise, not everything goes in Redford Township. Tried before a jury for a day and a half, Westberg was convicted and sentenced to two years on probation and ordered to pay fines of $405 in court fees and $200 for probation costs. A citizen of Redford Township for 16 years, and now unemployed as a data processor because of a back injury, Westberg called the proceedings foul. The American Civil Liberties Union agreed, and last week it went to court to ask for a new trial on the ground that the town...