Walk Like Updike, Live Like Lowell, Eat Your Words

[image error]John Updike predicted New York's newly announced 6 1/2 Avenue in a 1956 New Yorker article: "As a service to readers who are too frail or shy for good-natured hurly-burly, we decided to plot a course from the Empire State Building to Rockefeller Center that would involve no contact with either Fifth or Sixth Avenue."