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...October we hit the Internet, the bookstores, the phones. We soon stumbled upon Roger Lathbury, the man behind Orchises Press, the diminutive publishing house that Salinger has apparently chosen for the book titled Hapworth 16, 1924. (The title comes from a long short story originally published in The New Yorker...
...adventurous author of more than 50 books on subjects ranging from seduction to apes to cooking; in New York City. Her career began in 1924, when she crossed the country in a Model T Ford, chronicling her travels in letters to her brother, who sent them to the New Yorker. She wrote for the magazine throughout her life, becoming its China correspondent in 1935. In China she became temporarily addicted to opium, befriended Mao Zedong and met her future husband, a British intelligence officer by whom she proudly had a child out of wedlock...
...enthusiastic professor, but I came to feel that Af-Am 137y is not Professor Gates' priority. He has published four books in the last year; and in addition to chairing the African-American studies department, he is also the editor of Transition and writes prolifically for The New Yorker. How could he have the time to juggle all of these projects and simultaneously devote a lot of energy and hours of preparation to a class whose subject he knows inside out? Better yet, should...
...Yorker Naomi Weisz Nagel, 56, the story began with precious coded letters miraculously smuggled out of Czechoslovakia by her parents in 1943. An aunt who survived the war showed her how the letters contained the numbers of a secret Swiss account disguised as a telephone number. But when she and her aunt tried to retrieve the money from a Basel bank after the war, officials said there were no records of the account. "Despite our specific identification of an account number at a specific bank, despite having hired a Swiss lawyer, the bank refused to return my family's money...
Although she didn't stay at a Best Western, Joanna H. Case '99, a New Yorker, headed west last summer, working as a waitress at a "touristy diner" in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and recommends the trip to others...