Re: 30 page 1960 essay on harold ross: lost

From: Kim Johnson <haikux2@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 11:56:18 EST

--- Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org> wrote:
>
> It's an amusing pair of articles. They were
> legendary but unavailable
> anywhere except on microfilm, until early- to
> mid-2000, when Wolfe
> allowed them to be reprinted in a paperback volume.
>
>

they are available in 'hooking up'. wolfe includes a
foreword and afterword to the 2 articles. in the
afterword he writes:

"He [salinger] sent a telegram to Jock Whitney, and he
left nothing between the lines. It was the clearest,
most direct prose he ever wrote for publication in his
entire career:

'With the printing of that inaccurate and
sub-collegiate and gleeful and unrelievedly poisonous
article on William Shawn, the name of the Herald
Tribune and certainly your own will very likely never
again stand for anything either respect-worthy or
honorable.'"

i'm guessing that is the complete text of the
telegram, though wolfe doesn't say so.

kim

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