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September 18, 1971

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profiles

WOULDN'T IT BE FUN?

Brendan Gill

PROFILE of Cole Porter, songwriter, who died in 1964 at 73. Tells about his youth - attendance at Yale, sojurn in Paris. He was called a playboy, …

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Found Paradise (A Midwestern Writer Nobody Knows And How He Found Peace Of Mind)

Garrison Keillor