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GAY TALE AND A CY OF PERMANENT CHANGE

After the massage parlors, after the affair, after the sndalo book that nearly broke up his fay, Gay Tale is wrg a new op—about his relatnship wh his wife. * gay talese new york *

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By GAY TALESE. Cy Atlas ss down wh Gay Tale to learn his thoughts about the future and the past of New York Cy, which has been his home for 60 years. Gay Tale tells me that he do not have dire notns about the future of New York.

Gay says that a way was the most important job that he ever had at the paper, where he would later work as a staff reporter.

ONE ON 1: NEW YORK LERARY GIANT GAY TALE

New York: a serendiper's journey by Gay Tale, 1961, Harper edn, English - [1st ed.] * gay talese new york *

When you are a reporter, Gay explas, you have to go out to the cy and terview people, chase down the mayor, watch a strike, talk to firemen who have hosed down a burng buildg. Gay Tale left his job as a New York Tim reporter when he was 33 years old. Gay did not fd another place of employment.

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Gay opens his ont door—which is beg repated by a man drsed whe who asks who I am here to see—wh a hat his hand. Gay unlocks a door at the hoe’s right rner.

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Gay here at 9 or 10 the morng, and then stays and works until 2 or 3. At the first sk is the large typewrer wh which Gay first wr his stori.

GAY TALE: THE NEW YORK OBSERVER

Gay tale, among many other acplishments, wrote the most famo le magaz. “Frank Satra had a ld,” which appeared high Tale’s 1966 Esquire profile, munited stantly that the piece would pay no attentn to the nicetie [...] * gay talese new york *

There is a vase of red Calla lili, a potted tree, a poster that reads: “Mondadori dà il benvenuto Italia a Gay Tale tore di La donna d’altri. Gay tak not on shirt boards which he cuts to f to the breast pocket of his su jacket. Gay’s father was a tailor, and Gay drs impecbly.

Gay puts on a jacket and a hat each morng before he walks down to the bunker, even though he will not see anyone there the day. Tonight, Gay and his wife, Nan, will meet the son of Eddy Duch, the pianist and bandlear, and his wife for dner at La Ve d’Or, a rtrant that opened 1937.

Gay pots out that the same fay has owned the New York Tim sce 1896.

GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”

Gay, the son of an Italian immigrant, unrstands that this tensn is one of the nstants here. Skyscrapers that are nearly one hundred years old rt bi what Gay lls “glass monstrosi.

GAY TALE DEFENDS ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ AFTER SOURCE IS UNRCUT

This year there will be a reissue of the 1964, The Bridge: The Buildg of the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge, which Gay wrote while still at the New York Tim.

Gay reissu his work bee “when I fish a story, I don’t thk ’s done.

OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE

For the new edn, Gay found the scendants of the men who worked on the bridge. Gay tells me that when he terviewed Joseph earlier this year, he said that:. Gay has vered New York great storms and great fir, a plane crash.

Gay never wanted to move om New York to Washgton. “Too much stant policizatn is stilled now more than ever, ” Gay says. When Gay se New York attacked, he do not policize .

“Once I saw New York when the electril system failed, ” Gay says. Everybody except them and Gay Tale, who was watchg them. Gay do not only observe and talk wh ordary people, he is an expert at .

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