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Many of TIME'S senior editors are dedicated to stamping out all puns except their own -which, of course, are far superior to those thought up by the troops. Imagine how proud World Writers John Blashill, Robert Jones and Jason McManus felt last April when their story on Kwame Nkrumah's zoo, titled Fangs a Lot, made the magazine -74 glorious lines of puns about what happened "since the day Nkrumah was ostrichized." The day after the story appeared, some of us had second thoughts; but to make matters worse, TIME readers respunded in kine: "Next time some...
...Jason Epstein suggests that "people don't look to novels for what they used to. When I was in college, you looked at them for the truth. That transcendental phase is out now. I think perhaps novels succeeded too well-they told all they could. People look elsewhere for what they once got from novels-it may be to social writing or maybe TV, depending on who they...
...exceedingly competent editors. Albert Erskine Jr., 55, was Faulkner's editor, now handles John O'Hara and James Michener. Jason Epstein, 38, is in charge of W. H. Auden and Norman O. Brown. Epstein surveys his duties with cynical modesty. "You're just a valet," he says. "The suit comes in and you adjust the buttons. Any role you play is accidental. You were at the right place at the right time." But most authors consider the editorial function a little more important than that. In a left-handed compliment, Critic Leslie Fiedler once described the typical...
...Oppernockety. From all indications, Cerf runs a happy shop as well as a contented stable. "They're all prima donnas," he chortles. "We're a firm of prima donnas!" When he tells a visitor that Jason Epstein is "the cross I have to bear," Epstein retorts, "and Bennett is the bear I have to cross." Corporation Secretary Charles A. Wimpfheimer, 38, gets in on the fun now and then. He once installed a parking meter in Cerf's private washroom, probably because Cerf himself started the local bathroom jokes by placing two copies of Lindbergh...
Noon Wine is close in feeling to Peckinpah's prizewinning movie, Ride the High Country. A strange, withdrawn, harmonica-playing Swede (Per Oscarsson) arrives at the small Texas spread owned by an ignorant farmer named Thompson (Jason Robards Jr.). The Swede signs on as a handyman, and in the course of three years not only tunes up the farm operations to perfect pitch but slides, in his remote way, into the heart of the family...