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Next stop: B.U. 8, Harvard 4, and the realization that another chapter was going into the record book under the category of "disappointments...
...another chapter to John Kennedy's lengthening Lothario legend. The central figure this time is Mary Pinchot Meyer, an attractive, well-connected Washington artist who was the sister-in-law of Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. As former Post Vice President James Truitt recently told the National Enquirer, Kennedy's liaison with Meyer while he was President lasted nearly two years and even included some pot smoking in the White House bedroom. "She was not the kind of person to get into a dalliance," insists one old friend of the Meyer family. "This wasn't some...
...South Carolina, offers a reassessment of the controversial author's work. In a critical biography called The O'Hara Concern (Random House, 417 pp., $15.00), Bruccoli argues that O'Hara must rank as one of America's best novelists and our greatest writer of short stories. In a final chapter, Bruccoli details his reasons. He lists what he considers O'Hara's strongpoints: the "American-ness" of O'Hara's fiction; his ability to create memorable characters; his mastery of dialogue; moral basis of his writing...
...fact, by most outward measure, Vidal's present life is close to the last chapter in an Alger novel-updated by Gore Vidal. He spends eight or nine months each year at La Rondinaia...
...book wasn't rushed to influence the elections, but an extra chapter was added to meet publishing contracts. Actually, anyone knowledgeable about California farm labor or any careful reader of my book would scoff at the idea that the book could influence the elections. They would realize that farm workers can't afford a $12.95 book, and that many of them can't speak, let alone read, English...