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...appointment temporarily ends the two-year saga of a tenure battle that featured heated disputes about Goodwin's manuscript and a re-vote of the Government Department's original decision to tenure...
...biggest investor in long-form dynasty drama is NBC, with its Thursday evening Best Sellers series. Its opener, starring Henry Fonda, will be a nine-hour serialization of Taylor Caldwell's The Captains and the Kings, the saga of a Kennedy-esque Irish immigrant clan's rise to power. Other entries are based on Anton Myrer's Once an Eagle and Thornton Wilder's The Eighth...
...late R.F. Delderfield may have been the final heir of a tradition invented to while away long, damp English evenings: the multivolumed family saga. As the literary grandson of Trollope and son of Galsworthy, Delderfield industriously erected his own Barchester Towers, climbed his own Forsythe family tree. His mythical family, the Swanns, lived through everything from the Zulu War to the sinking of the Titanic. Writing seven days a week, from 10 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon, and from 6 to 7 in the evening, Delderfield produced an imposing series of doorstoppers, bearing such titles...
Delderfield's answer is hardly original, but coming from a saga writer, it bears a special weight. Looking back at himself 40 years later, old Charlie concludes that young Charlie was more or less right. A man must kick against the System-play the rebel, if not the outlaw-in order to become a man. Listening to Charlie, Delderfield seems staggered himself and hastily pulls back from profundity to close out his novel with a twist as old as one of O. Henry's. Still, it works, just as almost everything by Delderfield works. Who else could write...
...saga began in 1922, when Italian Immigrants Cesare and Rose Mondavi settled in Lodi, Calif., to start a grape-shipping business. In 1943, drawing on savings and bank loans, the Mondavis acquired the Charles Krug Winery, a dilapidated structure dating to 1861. To own it, the family formed a limited partnership, C. Mondavi & Sons, and later turned it into a corporation. Cesare, Rose, Robert and Peter each took 20%; Daughters Helen and Mary received 10% each. Cesare put Robert in charge and returned to grape shipping. When Peter got out of the Army Air Corps at the end of World...