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...after, of eight survivors of a battle-scarred company. In the cast: the rising young lawyer with a beautiful wife and a not-so-beautiful Greenwich Village mistress, the ex-sergeant who plays the horses and the fillies, the gentleman farmer whose wife is unfaithful (he encourages it), the smalltown publisher whose wife is also unfaithful (he would deplore it), and Homer Aswell, who believes he is dead. Miller relentlessly records everything-the brand of cigarettes they smoke, the way they like their Martinis, the jobs they had, the girls they missed, how their houses are furnished, how they take...
Twice, the Grimeses went to Germany to get the children, but Mrs. Grimes's father, an oldtime Communist and smalltown Red official named Paul Schroeder, would not surrender the girls to "capitalist America." "The future belongs to Communism," insisted Schroeder. "Why don't you stay here...
...farmer. He grew up in California's Livermore Valley, left high school after two years to become a messenger in Oakland's Central Bank.*Just 30 years later, he was named Central Bank president after bossing branch banks in Madera, Visalia, Fresno, Modesto and Stockton. As a smalltown banker, much of his time was spent on horseback, riding with the ranchers, digging up business, just as young A.P. used to tramp the furrows behind plowing farmers. A deep-voiced six-footer who talks the farmer's language, Wente's most frequent injunction to underlings is "Give...
According to the Autobiography, smalltown Dr. Williams and Poet Williams with his arty New York friends never got in each other's way. The doctor insists that he fed raw material to the writer, but the proof is plain that the writer (yanking out his typewriter to slap down a few sentences before the doctor's phone rang again) never got the material into satisfying shape. Williams' first books were privately printed, sold not at all and were usually bought up by Writer Williams with the money Dr. Williams passed him. A nonintellectual, he says, he made...
...some radio shows and smalltown concert dates, but his voice would not work the way he wanted it to, nor pay the bills he was piling up in high living. Lanza, was broke, hoarse and dispirited, but his luck was just about to click again. One day at a singing coach's studio he met a sunny little realtor named Sam Weiler, a man with plenty of money and a great yearning to be a singer. Realtor Weiler was ready to face up to the fact that he himself was no Caruso, and never would be. He listened...