Scribner in-store author celebrity breakdown 40 yrs ago:
Nice: Gloria Swanson, Marc Connelly, Donald Sutherland, Michael York, Faye Dunaway, Ansel Adams, Sophia Loren, John Gielgud etc
Not Nice: Rex Harrison, Claus Von Bulow
Horrible: Isaac Asimov
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Yikes. I had no idea. (Which, as you're saying, is a big part of the problem I guess.)
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It was very much an open secret in the science fiction world. I would like to know if anyone ever held him to account for it.
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The Scribner incident began with him standing on the Standard Authors balcony, giving a two-finger taxi whistle that echoed across the thirty-foot high space, and shouting to a clerk below, "HEY GIRLY!" Things went downhill from there.
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As I recall, he even boasted about it in his memoirs.
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