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Thomas Guinzburg dies at 84.  As a marine he survived the battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. As head of Viking Press, he published Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow."

On the occasion of Mr. Pynchon’s receiving the National Book Award, Mr. Guinzburg arranged for the comic actor Professor Irwin Corey to accept the award for the famously reclusive author.

I witnessed Corey ask a question at a Nation event in New York City in the mid 1990s.