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...lists hundreds of contacts in the acknowledgements, including Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., John McPhee, William Saroyan (apparently still kicking around), Frank Sinatra, John Cheever and John Updike. They all find their way into the narrative. O'Hara's employers--Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, The New Yorker, Random House and the Screenwriters Guild--allowed MacShane to dig through O'Hara's files...
...block in the medical profession, he became a day laborer in a steel mill and a pit man in a railroad roundhouse. He spent most of his nights drinking "bootleg" liquor at clubs and speakeasies but somehow found enough contacts and friends to get a job with The New Yorker...
...York, O'Hara continued his drinking and romances at the Stork Club, El Morocco, Larue, the Algonquin and Rudy Vallee's nightclub. At St. Martin and Mino's, on East Fifty-Second Street, he met Wolcott Gibbs, fiction editor of The New Yorker, who became a lifelong friend. In his novels and short stories, O'Hara renamed Pottsville Gibbesville in the editor's honor...
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Thank you for confirming what we've long suspected about The New Yorker [Jan. 12]. The occasional chuckle or pleasure experienced in coming upon an engrossing piece does not compensate any longer for the exasperation generated by plowing through all those slick, expensive pages of prolix maunderings. It's very sad, somewhat like losing a bright, witty and interesting companion to stroke and senility...