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Thomas Mann's translator John Woods, St. Augustine High's principal John Aherne
La Jolla's book man Dennis Wills, Amy Tan's agent, UCSD father Roger Revelle, John Theobald – friend to Frost and Auden
Woods and Zepp. "Thomas Mann sometimes built sentences a page long. My task as a translator is to take each of those sentences apart piece by piece."
Professor Horrdendo Discovers on Page 23 That I've Called an Orange a Tangerine
“Then there were a couple of older gentlemen here in California, one an ophthalmologist in Santa Monica and the other a retired naval officer in Julian. Both of them took the time to call me on the phone and write long letters. Each had read The Magic Mountain seven or eight times in his life, and suddenly they were reading it again and it was brand new, and they were so excited.”
By Judith Moore, Aug. 14, 1996 | Read full article
Father Harry Neely: "As a teacher, he was marvelous. He was the master of the put-down, and the kids enjoyed that. He would sink you.”
The Man in Black
But there had been a clue to the new Aherne. It emerged shortly before young Neely’s departure from seminary in 1945. “I was surprised. One day he asked me to wait after school. We just walked the patio for an hour. He was kind of sharing some of his feelings, you know. I was dumbfounded. He was talking about the disappointments of being friendly.” To Neely, Aherne was steeling himself against future displays of friendship.
By John Martin, April 15, 1999 | Read full article
Dennis Wills: "I really identified with Larry Darrell, that character in W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge. I was rather inspired by Darrell’s remarkable curiosity — someone who went through World War I, whose best friend was killed, and he’s still alive. The arbitrariness of this puzzles him."
The Bookseller Who Came in from the Cold
“The idea of a bookstore had been in my mind all along. Probably since I read The Razor’s Edge and Lost Horizon and visited those great bookstores in England, Blackwell’s and Thornton’s. I always knew I wanted to study religion and philosophy and maybe work in arms control and maybe, maybe, like in Lost Horizon, have a collection of books and knowledge where not only I but also other people could contemplate problems of knowledge.”
By Fred Moramarco, Sept. 21, 2000 | Read full article
Family portrait, John on right (ca. 1911). Theobald became a classmate of Eric Liddell, the champion sprinter portrayed in the movie Chariots of Fire.
What Greater Curse Than Life Without Verse
Theobald opened a correspondence with Ezra Pound that lasted for years. Throughout this time, the poet was an inmate at St. Elizabeth’s mental hospital in Washington, D.C., having been convicted of treason for radio broadcasts from Mussolini’s Italy. The correspondence consisted of practically nothing but gossip, literate though it was, but Theobald traded the letters to Laurence McGilvery of La Jolla, in exchange for the typesetting of his culminating book.
By Joe Applegate, July 8, 1982 | Read full article
"Life magazine called me yesterday about Amy; they wanted her to write something, and I turned around and pitched another book to them, another author. Entertainment Weekly, same thing. They called on Robert Ferrigno; I pitched Franchesca Forrer."
I’m Talking Monster Books
“So I said nooo, and then I looked at her synopsis, and in the middle, she had the words the ‘Joy Luck Club.' and I got goose pimples. I said. ‘Oh. my God. This could really be a bestseller. This is a magical title.' And I said to her, ‘We re gonna call it Joy Luck Club, and it’ll be a Chinese-American Decameron.' And that had a magical effect in New York. It electrified people."
By Mani Mir, April 26, 1990 | Read full article
Roger Revelle’s own investments, mainly in oil using his geology background, produce more income than his wife’s inheritance.
Revelle: Friend, Scientist, Real Estate Tycoon
When Salk soon decided he wanted to build his institute at a premiere site near the bluffs along the ocean, Revelle ruled out the selection because it was on city-owned property already promised to the university. Six months later Revelle found out through a call from a reporter that the polio researcher had gone behind his back and quietly convinced the city council to earmark Salk’s preferred ocean-view site for the research center.
By Matt Potter, July 25, 1991 | Read full article
Here's something you might be interested in.
Thomas Mann's translator John Woods, St. Augustine High's principal John Aherne
La Jolla's book man Dennis Wills, Amy Tan's agent, UCSD father Roger Revelle, John Theobald – friend to Frost and Auden
Thomas Mann's translator John Woods, St. Augustine High's principal John Aherne
La Jolla's book man Dennis Wills, Amy Tan's agent, UCSD father Roger Revelle, John Theobald – friend to Frost and Auden
Woods and Zepp. "Thomas Mann sometimes built sentences a page long. My task as a translator is to take each of those sentences apart piece by piece."
Professor Horrdendo Discovers on Page 23 That I've Called an Orange a Tangerine
“Then there were a couple of older gentlemen here in California, one an ophthalmologist in Santa Monica and the other a retired naval officer in Julian. Both of them took the time to call me on the phone and write long letters. Each had read The Magic Mountain seven or eight times in his life, and suddenly they were reading it again and it was brand new, and they were so excited.”
By Judith Moore, Aug. 14, 1996 | Read full article
Father Harry Neely: "As a teacher, he was marvelous. He was the master of the put-down, and the kids enjoyed that. He would sink you.”
The Man in Black
But there had been a clue to the new Aherne. It emerged shortly before young Neely’s departure from seminary in 1945. “I was surprised. One day he asked me to wait after school. We just walked the patio for an hour. He was kind of sharing some of his feelings, you know. I was dumbfounded. He was talking about the disappointments of being friendly.” To Neely, Aherne was steeling himself against future displays of friendship.
By John Martin, April 15, 1999 | Read full article
Dennis Wills: "I really identified with Larry Darrell, that character in W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge. I was rather inspired by Darrell’s remarkable curiosity — someone who went through World War I, whose best friend was killed, and he’s still alive. The arbitrariness of this puzzles him."
The Bookseller Who Came in from the Cold
“The idea of a bookstore had been in my mind all along. Probably since I read The Razor’s Edge and Lost Horizon and visited those great bookstores in England, Blackwell’s and Thornton’s. I always knew I wanted to study religion and philosophy and maybe work in arms control and maybe, maybe, like in Lost Horizon, have a collection of books and knowledge where not only I but also other people could contemplate problems of knowledge.”
By Fred Moramarco, Sept. 21, 2000 | Read full article
Family portrait, John on right (ca. 1911). Theobald became a classmate of Eric Liddell, the champion sprinter portrayed in the movie Chariots of Fire.
What Greater Curse Than Life Without Verse
Theobald opened a correspondence with Ezra Pound that lasted for years. Throughout this time, the poet was an inmate at St. Elizabeth’s mental hospital in Washington, D.C., having been convicted of treason for radio broadcasts from Mussolini’s Italy. The correspondence consisted of practically nothing but gossip, literate though it was, but Theobald traded the letters to Laurence McGilvery of La Jolla, in exchange for the typesetting of his culminating book.
By Joe Applegate, July 8, 1982 | Read full article
"Life magazine called me yesterday about Amy; they wanted her to write something, and I turned around and pitched another book to them, another author. Entertainment Weekly, same thing. They called on Robert Ferrigno; I pitched Franchesca Forrer."
I’m Talking Monster Books
“So I said nooo, and then I looked at her synopsis, and in the middle, she had the words the ‘Joy Luck Club.' and I got goose pimples. I said. ‘Oh. my God. This could really be a bestseller. This is a magical title.' And I said to her, ‘We re gonna call it Joy Luck Club, and it’ll be a Chinese-American Decameron.' And that had a magical effect in New York. It electrified people."
By Mani Mir, April 26, 1990 | Read full article
Roger Revelle’s own investments, mainly in oil using his geology background, produce more income than his wife’s inheritance.
Revelle: Friend, Scientist, Real Estate Tycoon
When Salk soon decided he wanted to build his institute at a premiere site near the bluffs along the ocean, Revelle ruled out the selection because it was on city-owned property already promised to the university. Six months later Revelle found out through a call from a reporter that the polio researcher had gone behind his back and quietly convinced the city council to earmark Salk’s preferred ocean-view site for the research center.
By Matt Potter, July 25, 1991 | Read full article
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