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THE OTHER JACKSON

*In his Essay about Republican bands getting involved in the presidential election campaign [Sept. 6], Joel Stein said he contacted guitarist Ted Nugent through Nugent's Tedquarters in Jackson, Miss. In fact, his headquarters are in Jackson, Mich.
THE OTHER KOREA
*The In the Arena column "Kerry in a Straitjacket" [Aug. 30] said President Bush had announced he wanted to bring U.S. troops home from North Korea. The reference should have been to South Korea.

A Heart's

Lance Morrow's Essay [Sept. 20] offered Bill Clinton insight about what the former President can expect in his post-quadruple-bypass life. As a heart-surgery veteran, Morrow has visited this subject before, most notably in his autobiographical book Heart: A Memoir, which TIME reviewed in the Oct. 16, 1995, issue:

"In an effort to heal body and spirit following a second coronary-bypass operation at the relatively young age of 52, [Morrow] was determined to seek out the sources of the internalized anger that had twice threatened to choke off his life by causing a heart attack. This evocative book is the result. Morrow's memories draw the reader in from the start. 'A heart attack feels like this,' he writes. 'A SICKNESS SUDDENLY SURROUNDS THE LUNGS, A SORT OF TOXIC INTERIOR GLOW — fleeting at first, lightly slithering, but returning a moment later, more insistent ... Something dangerous has come inside and will not leave' ... Several times during his narration, Morrow writes of being invisible — of being, in various contexts, an unseen observer ... In the end, however, he concludes that his introspection has been 'useless, or anyway illusory' ... But he is wrong ... Morrow's luminous study of self, spurred by a medical crisis, strikes an unexpectedly universal chord."

MARITAL MISCHIEF

In 1973, Nigel Nicolson published Portrait of a Marriage and set a new literary standard for tell-all biographies. Nicolson, who died in September [MILESTONES, Oct. 4], revealed that both his famous parents, author Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson, had homosexual love affairs during their long marriage. TIME reviewed Portrait in the Nov. 12, 1973, issue:

"[Sackville-West and Nicolson] were married in 1913 and stayed married for nearly half a century ... Their union ... was for years regarded as the kind of enviable domestic alliance that survives long separation and divergent interests. One day in 1962, soon after his mother's death, their son Nigel Nicolson, by then a London publisher and M.P., unlocked a Gladstone bag hidden in Vita's tower writing room. In it HE FOUND HER 1920-21 MEMOIR OF AN INTENSE THREE-YEAR AFFAIR WITH VIOLET KEPPELL, AN ICONOCLASTIC REDHEADED GIRL whose mother had been the mistress of King Edward VII ... Gladstone bag and all, the book has become a delicious and gossipy literary event in England ... [Sackville-West] wrote the memoir, she says, hoping to encourage more candor about 'normal but illicit relations' ... [After the affair] she came back to [her husband] for good. Harold won out because Vita needed an 'anchor.'"

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