European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                He had a sense of this Side of the Cor Leaf obligingly drawn up at the and or the he re glued thai the Lea Blue and that there was an tatar Niota Quantity of and thai it roared and this Side of by James Barron new York times there want much of that old Lime Glamour or gaiety on the Beach at Asbury Park the other the sea was and the White gulls around Conven Tion Hall were flapping the people shuffling along the Wellborn promenade carried melancholy expressions past places like Maries readings and which was and fifth Avenue where tawdry machines were going full the scene was different years when Scott Fitzgerald pranced through there on the Way to writing his first bestselling Side of Fitzge Rald frequented be Jersey Shore before he created the Gmal Cal Sty and the last tycoon before the credit problems and us crack up before he tired of the feverish doings of the Gin mad generation he wrote about in the mos and Ever a email but dedicated band of readers has been sniffing the Trail that Fitzgerald left behind when he prowled through new Jersey and absorbed things that later turned up in his novels and Short that if his he went by the Book in the Case of to few Side t was a thinly disguised autobiography that made him an instant Success at fitzgeralds display of mirth was so striking that even now a reenactment of his Youthful new Jeree frolics is a trip of the journey at where be Wai once a etude no of questionable academic he left the University 0 lost wring try la Hil graduating to join us having flunked French and euro Pean history at various times during his undergrad uate Foj Cerald never Maile it to the european but by the cod of the War he had come to the attention of scrib the new Vork which eventually signed him to a the Irish writer Shane Leslie had writ ten Charles Scribner 2d to recommend a manuscript by a Princeton boy who appeared to be an american Rupert the manuscript became this Side at fitzgeralds first commandment for preparing his first novel was to live in his freshman Dormi a Cream coloured routing House at 15 University 1977 ate time oat Only for four from like the one flu Geraw de the card begun on Friday night and lasted until very late sunday j Neya away from the scribed fitzgeralds fictional character a sped there fast open cars filled with friends and itis frolics were More real than and what be described in his j novel actually happened on the and so Fluge raids journey was restored recently in a Volkswagen toted by a Driver who had never seen one of fitzgeralds offshore pirates Ostrich Feather with both the Driver and his passengers in Pursuit of a writer who f signed himself the Man with three noses or Well known fat Geralds hero in Shii Side of the trek was merely another Way to live through College on the grand a Chance in find More of the prosperous big game the wild Moonlight revel that the author seek All his we he burlesque shows n and to football recalled Robert who now lives in new he lived in fitzgeralds dormitory in ibo the Model for Kerry one of characters in to Side anything that you can we we tried to seize on any Opportunity that sometimes wre very Good Crawford remembers Fitzgerald As a very ambitious boy who was always trying to be something he never had first Fitzgerald tried to play but the is Pound freshman was kicked off Loam after three j still Kab dreamed of emulating Hobey the Tain of the football team who was also a legendary hockey player and the Model for Amory the principal character in this Side of but these some of his admirers arc concerned1 that tie current generation of Princeil Nuriu has lost Paradise he newspaper writers who mention him As an example of How the College has changed Over the years Are rebuked by critics for perpetuating the these insisting that Fitzgerald int Worth Reading and should be maintain that Fitzgerald did Princeton a disservice by describing it one of the finest country clubs in Matthew Bruscoli of the University of South who is one of the noun Lryni Foremost Fulz Gerdrd at such i meet kids All the Lime who go to Princeton for Only one reason file Erato went he thins All they know about and that All they and i take Strong exception to anyone who says Fitzgerald was bad for the image of ton that Fitzgerald Prelec Ted in his works is not in any Way injurious to i is a hell of an aural five fitzgeralds Young Princeton ans Are intensely idealistic not particularly devoted la their but very serious Young they Are almost absurdly serious be cause they Are so concerned with their destinies when they Are Only in or 20 years they were working Tike hell and were full of High principles perhaps Mure so than the present one thing is certain it was at Princeton thai Fitzgerald spoiled his destiny As if not As an he turned out Izreo musical dozens of several issues of the humor Magazine and titles Tor the novels he would write later in among his undergraduate creations were Fie fit to my maed greek Book and than vampires wont Vampire a song about the problems of collegiate he was a triple threat u rival writers in the Triangle Princeton perennial musical comedy not Only did Fitzgerald write the but he also donned satiny dresses to Romp onstage As one of the at Tractive chorus girls in such Lively musicals to safely triangles 1516 High kicking it alongside the aspiring novelist were several dozen other Princeton bouquets to they were the cast members whose voices were not Strong enough for Malar singing and they made up the troupe that brought each Triangle production to its Peak scene each year until when coeducation was finally adopted at the University and women joined the Fitzgerald made his Mark at Princeton in other he carved his initial into the mantel of Bis several doors and no doubt a few of us old sugar Maple Trees around the but he never succeeded at Cov ering his report card with anything he bad it is a Miracle he lasted beyond his Sophomore Bruscoli he had a great sense of developing very rapidly because he knew what he wanted to do he want Edo be a the greatest in the supremely convinced that be would achieve Fame and Fortune at a Lime when Many of us Dass Wiet were facing of flu Gerald saved everything from memories his which now form what i believed to be toe most Cam Plute Archive of any american in the Princeton University there arc six author Fitzgerald in chorus of student produced musical comedy at scrapbooks that to compiled Over the More than 20 letters from Ernest Hemingway to motion picture notes for Pho clips Gsand  As Alexander the Library curator of Manu scripts put la Fitgerald had All the classic excuses notto save but he he never owned a Home and he moved and moved and three moves arc As Good As a for displacing Peoples Bui he had a sense of v what he did not was a sense of direction for is which became increasingly tragic Unell his death at age 44 in 1940 in As he contemplated the Princeton football teams performance thai depression and alcohol had dimmed his Promise As a writer no longer could he constrict Short or even but merely Short shorts and no longer could earn As he had in the As his problems became More Fitzgerald re Lumen to Princeton More and More but Bruccoli does not describe Fitzgerald As a perennial undergraduate Herald for thai the collegiate experience was the most important of ones these Guys would come not to get drunk m football games but to look for v Greet Toughie try Remembert Fig anus a classmate who became a chewy new is Yean bad advised fat Ferald to give up career As a novt Litt it re Toto the new Vork  Aee Ocy thai be bad in to Fitzgerald would gel up in the morning and never put on Hii Daughen hed work to Hii Paia maa or a Rob and i would read what he we discouraged we didst think lie was going to get anywhere with his we just didst think it was Good and i never did think it was a Good Fitzgerald appeared on the Campus from tune to but never looking so pathetic As on his last As Daugherty recounted he had been out on the town in new quote Early in the a taxi from appeared out and the Driver 1 got something for Fitzgerald was i wanted him to go to bed but he i took him Down Louw Princeton it was a working Day for so didst get Down Here until the he had gotten up and and 1 never saw him in the Daughtery the amazing thing is the upsurge of interest in for so nobody we never thought he was a great literary figure around or maybe we just didst we just didst have the sense id spot the stars and stripes Page 15