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YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE (783 pp.)-Herman Wouk-Doubleday...
...shaky but probably defensible; the gross offense of distorting a man's life can be justified to some extent if it helps the novelist to capture the quality of the man's spirit. But there is no literary or historical justification for the cynical trespass Herman Wouk has committed in Youngblood Hawke. It is not merely a distortion; it is an act of violence...
...victim is Thomas Wolfe. Wouk, respected as the storyteller of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar, widely praised as the sober man of good will who wrote This Is My God, has dismembered Wolfe and used the pieces to put together his novel's author-hero. This is not the same thing as drawing a fictional portrait of Wolfe. Wouk is not interested in Wolfe's life, except as a scenario for a searching inquiry into the agonizing problems of authorship (taxes, how to get the highest bid for movie rights, etc.). Wolfe's autobiographical novels proved...
Unhappy Tourist. Moss Hart persuaded Lazar to become an independent agent soon after the war. Swiftly, his list grew until it included George S. Kaufman. Herman Wouk, S. N. Behrman, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, George Cukor. And as his personal legend developed, Lazar found himself caricatured in the work of his clients: Hart lampooned him gently, and George Axelrod mortalized his little friend as Irving ("Sneaky") LaSalle, the Hollywood literary agent in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
Down in the islands, the sound of crashing surf was temporarily drowned out by the echo of charge and countercharge. Aroused pro-and anti-Paiewonsky factions fired hundreds of messages to Washington, about 9 to 1 in Paiewonsky's favor. Said Novelist Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk, who lives on St. Thomas: "Paiewonsky is the best man." In Charlotte Amalie, the Seventh-day Adventist Church said prayers for Paiewonsky...