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Juniors Brian Sullivan, cox, and Monk Terry, stroke, start their third year together and have yet to be beaten. Senior Mike Radetsky, last year's bowman, will row at seven, while classmate Roger Cheever, who rowed on the varsity as a sophomore, returns this spring as bowman in the German-rigged boat...
...This is not the case, of course. Out of great sorrows come little songs, and out of little sorrows come short stories. Still, the man who presumes to take an hour out of the reader's life had better have some comedy or magic up his sleeve. John Cheever does. His much anthologized piece, The Enormous Radio, again presents its enigmas. Cheever examines modern technological superstitions-deus in machina-in the form of a radio set with God's own ear for private conversation, and thus makes a nightmare of a cozy modern apartment...
...Books & Osmosis. There are many first-rate novelists at work today whose output is read widely. O'Hara's books invariably become bestsellers. Bernard Malamud's The Fixer is sailing along profitably. Cheever, Updike, Steinbeck, Mailer, Bellow, Styron, all have ready audiences as well, despite the torrents of trash that flow off the presses alongside their work. Truman Capote insists: "There are more gifted writers in this country now than there have ever been before...
Sometimes the Updike stories echo not only themselves but other voices by other specialists. The Family Meadow, for example, could be an unconscious transcription of John Cheever's The Day the Pig Fell into the Well; it is a memorable elegy to a family at its high point of felicity, caught at the moment before its dissolution. Yet the story is Updike's own; it is clearly his identifiably New Jersey-Pennsylvania family he is writing about, and the note he sounds is ironic; so far, he has left others to blow the tragic basses...
...with everything from compressors to power mowers, looking for further hush money. This week 175 members of the Lake Club of New Canaan are scheduled to share the loot as extras. It's not that they need the $5 a day; it's the glimpse of glory. Cheever himself was offered the part of the floating souse, but he turned it down. "If I'm only going to be in one movie in my life," he said, "I'm damned if my grandchildren are going to see me drunk in a swimming pool." Instead, they will...