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...late '20s he came to New York and worked on the Herald Tribune, the Mirror and TIME. He developed a reputation as a prodigious drinker-he quit altogether in 1953 after suffering a massive internal hemorrhage-with a concomitant talent for being fired. But by 1929 the first of his short stories started appearing in The New Yorker. Four years later, his literary reputation solidly established, he set to work on Samarra. Between August and November he rattled out 25,000 words, then ran out of money. He promptly sent copies of the early chapters to three publishers, asking...
...talk realistically about the faults and failings of their society. In the past two years, a courageous new voice has arisen to question the official pretensions of infallibility. It belongs to Physicist Andrei Sakharov, 48, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, whose own views are believed to mirror those of many Russian intellectuals. In 1968 Sakharov wrote a 10,000-word essay, studied with great interest in the West, that called for a rapprochement of the capitalist and Communist systems and for greater personal freedoms in the Soviet Union...
...unforgetting ear. The author well knows the men Proust called "sons without a mother." He delineates the reliance on alcohol and drugs to pull a shade over the mind; the loveless encounters that begin with need and end with arrest; the deadly message of the mirror that announces the ebbing of the physical attractiveness that is the homosexual's main solace...
...Times Mirror Co., the merger -if consummated-will culminate a decade-long drive that thus far has made it the third largest in U.S. publishing. Six months ago, the company also entered into a merger agreement with the Dallas Times Herald and its three local TV and radio stations...
...initial press run of 30,000 copies, the smartly turned-out tabloid has grown to a circulation approaching half a million, seventh among all evening papers in the nation. Newsday's strength in such areas as New York entertainment and sports is particularly attractive to the Times Mirror Co., which, with the Washington Post, operates a national news service...