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...forthcoming book, Franny and Zooey, "that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years." With customary obliqueness, Salinger pointedly failed to state what he considered a writer's most valuable property, proceeded to brush off the usual biographical data with the uncandid note: "My wife has asked me to add, however, in a single explosion of candor, that I live in Westport with...
After protecting Presidents and their families from summit conferences to swimming pools and from the blood-stained steps of Blair House to the fox hunting fields of Middleburg, U. E. (for Urbanus Edmond) Baughman wanted out. Confessed the lanky, brush-haired veteran of 33 years in the Secret Service, the last 13 as its chief: "At 56 I'm worn out." Baughman's post-retirement plans: "I'm going to do all the things I've been watching other people...
...Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., the class of 1914 had no trouble picking the Man Most Likely to Succeed. He was bright, moonfaced James Phinney Baxter III, pride of a leading Maine family.* Armed with summa and Phi Beta Kappa key. Valedictorian Baxter headed for Wall Street riches. A brush with TB soon turned him to teaching; but the class prophecy still came true. At 44, Historian Baxter became the youngest of Williams' ten presidents. This month, when he retired at 68, Phinney Baxter was the dean of topflight New England college presidents, and one of the most respected...
...friend until the sentimental fadeout page. For pre-teentimers there are soap operettas about girls "who never quite know how to talk to boys." The boys are usually busy talking to a pet moose or rocketing off to the moon. But at least, the cautionary yarns of the brush-your-teeth-or-mommy-won't-love-you variety seem to be on the wane. So are humorless educative nip-ups of the A-is-for-aspidistra, B-is-for-bathy-sphere order...
...Miss Sunshine is the high-powered female producer of the solar show. Her problem actor is Cousin Rain, a climatological cut-up who releases Mr. Thunder and Mr. Lightning from their padlocked castle. Miss Sunshine's loyal ally is Mr. Rainbow, the official scene painter who slips about, brush in hand, to give beetle, butterfly and snail shell the appropriate hue of the season. The pixyish, Chagall-accented illustrations set the special tone of the book...