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Miss Sexton, a member of the Radcliffe Institute, has contributed to The New Yorker, Harper's, Accent, Hudson Review, and Partisan Review and has published two volumes of her verse, To Bedlam and Part Way Bask and All My Pretty Ones. In 1959 she held the Robert Frost Fellowship at the Broad Loaf Writers' Conference...
...publishers confidently believe that another wave of what has been called the Salinger generation will be a solid market for the last two Glass stories in hardcover at $4, both having appeared in The New Yorker, in 1955 and 1959 respectively. Outside the campus, there are signs that crabbed age is becoming short-tempered about the cutups in the Salinger kindergarten. London's New Statesman has muttered about "Zenny & Phooey." and Critic Mary McCarthy has brought her severe forensic intelligence to bear on Salinger and files a contemptuous brief which indicts him for attempting to feed the young...
...Humes, 36, a founder of the Paris Review and the author of two books, Underground City and Men Die, is a New Yorker who was trained as a scientist at M.I.T. and whose interests include cosmological theory, civic reform in Manhattan, and the feasibility of selling houses made of paper. Humes's novels have excesses that mark them recognizably as first and second books, but they are rich with life and intelligence. Underground City, set in France during the Resistance and the early postwar days, is, notably, the only novel in memory that achieves both dignity and passion...
...presume you are acquainted with the articles by Messrs. Boyle and Angell in Sports Ilustrated and the New Yorker, both about the pre-Yale game week, and which I thought were superb jobs. About the former I had a letter in the 19th Hole in the issue of January 7th, which you may have seen, and which, I think caught the spirit of the article...
...first full-headed day at home or office. Many new toupee owners plan their vacations around the wig's delivery date, return home to friends who usually know something is different but are often convinced it is a slight weight gain or that brilliant tan. One suburban New Yorker received his new hairpiece in the privacy of the fitting room, put it on as his wife walked in. She burst into laughter and kept right on laughing for about five minutes. Her husband blushed, got more and more embarrassed, was finally ready to hurl the wig at the salesman...