1. Salinger said the radar shows four successive stages of a blip moving toward the mark that represented Flight 800.

2. Did you ever meet or communicate with Salinger?

3. On Thursday, J. D. Salinger turns 90.

4. The writer is Jerome David Salinger, and almost all his fictional characters seem more real, more plausible, than he.

5. What do Albert Einstein, J.D. Salinger, Emily Dickinson, Vincent Van Gogh, and Susan B. Anthony have in common?

6. Over the years, Salinger told me about working "long and crazy hours" at his writing and trying to stay away from everything that was written about him.

7. Abruptly, Claire broke off with Salinger and married a young blue - suit from the Harvard Business School.

8. Salinger in 1946 was back in New York, rid not only of soldiering but of a brief, unsuccessful marriage to a European woman physician.

9. The statement added: "Salinger had remarked that he was in this world but not of it.

10. Jerome David Salinger was born in Manhattan on New Year's Day, 1919, the second of two children.

11. For all his reclusiveness, moreover, Mr. Salinger has none of the sage's self-effacement; his manner is a big and showy one, given to tours-de-force and to large emotional gestures.

12. As a young man, Mr. Salinger yearned ardently for just this kind of attention.

13. Despite the meagerness of his output, Salinger, at 42, has spoken with more magic, particularly to the young, than any other U.S. writer since World War II.

14. As a young man, Mr. Salinger had a long, melancholy face and deep soulful eyes, but now, in the few photographs that surfaced, he looked gaunt and gray, like someone in an El Greco painting.

15. "Salinger had remarked that he was in this world but not of it, " the statement said.

16. A full obituary for J. D. Salinger can be found here.

17. Salinger loved movies, and he was more fun than anyone to discuss them with.

18. Like the Glasses, the Salinger children were the product of a mixed marriage.

19. We're already planning it: JD Salinger and Robert Mugabe are interested.

20. His feelings fascinated him, and his creator, J. D. Salinger, thought readers should sympathize with them.

21. One gets the sense that director Gary Winick would love to have helmed the movie version of The Catcher in the Rye if J.D. Salinger hadn't banned it from ever reaching theaters.

22. Slawenski tells us that to mark his brief stay in the city of Bydgoszcz, there are plans to erect a statue of Salinger standing in a patch of living rye.

23. Off to Bydgoszcz. At night, tenting a blanket over his head to hide his flash light beam from the Valley Forge duty officer, Salinger (by now called Jerry) had written his first short stories.

24. In 1937, after a couple of unenthusiastic weeks at New York University, Mr. Salinger traveled with his father to Austria and Poland, where the father's plan was for him to learn the ham business.

25. In April of 1968, the stamped date of the never-before-seen photograph above, J. D. Salinger would have been 49 years old.

26. On June 6, five hours after the first assault forces hit Utah Beach, Salinger landed with the 4th in Normandy, stayed with the division through the Battle of the Bulge.

27. An Interpretation of the Narrative Language Traits in the Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.

28. [/salinger.html], and no plumbing or furnace in the gambrel-roofed cottage Salinger bought on a 90-acre hillside tract overlooking the Connecticut River.

29. Drought conditions in parts of Australia where malting barley was grown was likely to get worse, according to Jim Salinger of New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

30. The artsy - ginsy exurb was no place for Salinger.

31. We all just really appreciate theeffect and influence Salinger and his works have had on our society.

32. If hisextraordinarily private style held true in his will-making, would-beadapters of the Salinger oeuvre are out of luck.