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VOL. LXIII-NO. 6 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monda - .T ,Spebr1 Does Kim Novak really have anythi Garrett's 'li a Fox," was acc By Stan Sears masterpiece fo authenticity of Now just about everyone knows about ladsthetot wo James Dickey and the mystique that sur- ledontow rounds him, almost surrealistic. We saw fonhitr him in his finest hour, standing on Frank through time t McGuire's sacred floor, introducing a Rus- "How?" you sian poet. The introduction was in Dickey's kid from Orlar * inimitable style, and most definitely, long Seowanie Milit to be remembered by all present.nesegtie However, our author-in-residence is asSrWle slightly less conspicuous, probably because Garret t we his flamboyance is held inside until a devil's School, a class co-conspirator smile breaks through. Then, nsy lvanaia and all hell breaks loose, causing those around Golden lehi George Garrett to fall into fits of uncontrol- sionldenksov led laughter.sinlrk. Garrett's most recent novel, "Death of Wayne-types ntod wihwytift all cach 41. 41MAI N ng to do with why this football coach-i fe with Kim r :laimed by many as a literary say, the kid followed his r its attention to detail. The being a good old boy, and j F the menus, speeches, etc. sional ranks as a welter% nder whether the author has frn i oedfa,o rne machine and blasted sahcoqergba o Elizabethan England. sgto hs on er may ask, did a wild young fo h ig fe op do, Florida, and educated atfesoarcrd ary School in the hills of Ten- Drn i eirya rested in something as crazyretwsurdonbSi laleigh's death?thsujcofisenrth nt on to study at the Hill Gretfuda bec gy private school up in Pen-rphofRlih..smt kept up a boxing career thatcetr.Sothsbam to the finals of the SouthernfisbokUnrtael i, and later into the profes- ucecoeti iet c What was that our John ui nhcoreoa were saying about Englishpiknupafwbcs" sy, Hra e ol fou-u kin fordoes snt "U turned-author is smiling? See below. Jovak in hell' natural instincts, and Italy instead of Korea. oined the profes- "I figured that I had it made, getting sent 'eight. After suf- to Italy. It turned out that when I got to r young prodigy Trieste, they were in the middle of civil war. ten to hell. At the So, I was shot at for the first time in my e Garrett retired life my first day in Trieste." ling an 8-1-1 pro- Upon his return, Garrett found that there were several new biographies of Raleigh t Princeton, Gar- released while he was overseas. After this, Walter Raleigh, Garrett turned his creative mind to the task esis. At this point, of finding a sellable form for the mass of >f "a recent biog- information he had collected. For ten years, ng since the 19th nothing turned up. Several books on other the topic of his topics and collections of poems, meanwhile, our benevolent were published. ivate the reserve Then, in 1964, a now-defunct publisher serving in ("just became interested in Garrett's work on the due to Korea. him to Germany (Please See GARRETT, Page 8)