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...would be delighted to devote my life to the pursuit of dirt if I thought I might be interrupted for tea at the White House, letters from The New Yorker or chats with Jean Kerr. Phyllis McGinley, typical housewife indeed...
...Franny and Zooey-just one more refraction through his magic Glasses in the form of a letter that Seymour Glass, the fictional family's presiding guru and ghost, wrote home from Camp Hapworth, Maine, at the tender age of seven. Published in The New Yorker, the note is introduced briefly by Family Historian Buddy Glass, who for years has been garrulously obsessed by the memory of his suicide brother. By the letter, Childe Seymour seems to have been, practically from birth, a perfervid scholar, linguist, spiritual genius and altogether verbose little man who finds everything in life "heartrending...
...precaution against the possibility that her verse might not produce an instant livelihood, she took a job teaching English in a junior high school in New Rochelle, 17 miles north of New York City. She sold a few verses to The New Yorker, then got a plaintive note from Fiction Editor Katherine White: "Dear Miss McGinley: We are buying your poem, but why do you sing the same sad songs all lady poets sing?" Phyllis took the hint, began turning out light and amusing verse...
...Rochelle, her principal showed something less than approval of the new schoolmarm's extracurricular pursuit. One day he summoned her to the office, brandished a copy of The New Yorker with a McGinley poem in it, and confided the hope that this moonlighting would not interfere with her classroom commitments. At the end of the year, the schoolteacher decided not to let classroom commitments hobble her muse. She resigned...
Before Pastures, Connelly collaborated with George S. Kaufman on such hits as Dulcy and Merton of the Movies. Since then he has sojourned for ten years in Hollywood, writing and doctoring movie scripts (Captains Courageous, I Married a Witch), and has contributed short stories and humor to The New Yorker-a magazine he helped found. He has also produced and directed Broadway shows (Everywhere 1 Roam, Having Wonderful