Penobscot Days, Editorial-Assistant Night

Ed Coaster's lend-lease plan

:v t)V L C )ASTER 52200 Dear Grajdon: A teens i:avor. Please. I no: I still owe iou 8 long leatures, 3 medium ones, and 11 shorties against the one 200-word item I've alreadj turned in. would ,ou mind ii I did ju.t one piece Lor The bew Yor.er? I wouldn't even a..., except that theY `re realli bearing down on me to do something Lor their themed double issue on alcoholism. It's nothing iou'd ever want xor V.P. aniwai-ust 01' personal stories about Tennessee Williams, Jerry Salinger, arid the Duke oX Windsor, plus some crazi drunken bullshit .iarii.,r 1onroe told me when I ..a called in to do a polish on Something's Got to Give. As ever, I appreciate .,our generosity and understanding oX my situation. (B., the time the three exes and their bastard ia:., erw have checsed in, there ain't much leit oX that $33,000 monthli check.) I've alreadd told ?ernr1ic it won't be a problem, but I wanna mate doubij, triply sure. We're simpatico, right?

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;Ld)W1N COASTER 6/1, Dear Grador: Goddammit, I cannot continue to work with that siss~bo~ editor iou've saddled me .,ith. He says the lede on my McNally piece 1.., quote, too me-me-me. Make it more about the restaurant." Does he have any idea who I am? Does he know I rote Ronky Tonkin, the definitive chronicle oZ `64? I swear, ii he makes me change so much as a ord more, I'll have his iucking balls. On to bluer ie: O.K., you win-I'll give the "Conversations with Marilyn" idea a shot. Of course, it's been a hile since I delved into those Iournals and files. I have a proposals while there's no love lost between me and Siasybo, I am quite taken with his assistant, Constance. In the lour lunches I had with her the week I was bun from .iaine, I found her to be intelligent, ivacious, and very fluent in my work. So: I ould like to borrow Constance for the summer as i research assistant. The timing is perect-Kate 11 be auaj at Breadloal', meaning there'll be ent, of room in the house. And Penobscot Bay is its most temperate in July and August. Hell, stance ouldn't need to wear anthing but a msuit all days What say you?