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...result is a series of texts for students and manuals for teachers that Yale University Press publishes at $1.80 per copy, wholesale. Last year 140,000 copies were used in test cities from Seattle to Westport; this year sales will hit 300,000. To spread the word even further, Random House and Yale last week published the first six volumes of a Begle-sparked series of paperbacks ($1.95) called the New Mathematical Library, with such titles as The Lore of Large Numbers and What Is Calculus About...
...surgeon's knife." The article was directed at "the thousands of women who spend millions of dollars each year hopefully trying to regain the facial appearance of their more youthful days." For $1,000 they could have a two-week stay at the Budkon Center in Westport, Conn., where a mild burning with buffered carbolic acid would wipe away sagging skin, wrinkles, freckles, acne scars, and the troubled look of middle age-all under the supervision of a former professor of dermatology...
...cottage 24 miles away, in Tarrytown. Friends apparently found his address, because he hid out in a sweatbox near the Third Avenue el for his three-week push to finish Catcher. He decided to move again, and in one of the notable failures of Zen archery, hit on Westport. The artsy-ginsy exurb was no place for Salinger. "A writer's worst enemy is another writer," he remarked ungraciously and accurately somewhat later...
...spend six months of the year in a Buddhist monastery and the other six in a mental institution." One source of bogus information is the author himself; in the jacket blurb for Franny and Zooey, which he wrote himself, he says with coy fraudulence that "I live in Westport with my dog." The dark facts are that he has not lived in Westport or had a dog for years. But to disprove such rumors and humors involves infiltrating a distant-early-warning system equipped to detect journalists half a continent away...
...years." With customary obliqueness, Salinger pointedly failed to state what he considered a writer's most valuable property, proceeded to brush off the usual biographical data with the uncandid note: "My wife has asked me to add, however, in a single explosion of candor, that I live in Westport with...