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...Cavafy underwent a tracheotomy for throat cancer. After prolonged agony, he died on April 29, 1933, his 70th birthday. His last conscious act was to draw a circle on a blank sheet of paper and then place a period in the middle of it. The cycle of his life had ended; the cycle of his art had scarcely begun...
Downey, seeded 70th in the 100-yard backstroke, surprised everyone with a 21 place finish in a field of 86. Downey also grabbed a 34 in the 200-yard individual medley...
...adopted the TV comedian as its honorary police chief last February, Wilson promised to contribute $10,000 for a new swimming pool. Last week he came to deliver. "We've got a $5,000 check for a police car," proclaimed Wilson during festivities for the town's 70th anniversary, "and now we're going to start working on $22,000 for a fire truck." Great, but what about the pool? "He wanted us to decide what we needed the most," explained Boley Mayor Sam Wilcox later. "A police car and fire truck seemed more important than...
...have no works of righteousness of my own. I am nothing but a poor old worthless insignificant painter." This may be as fine a case of being one's own harshest critic as the annals of American art can offer. When Hicks died in 1849, in his 70th year, more than 3,000 people came to his funeral-an imposing turnout today, but a prodigious crowd then. They did not come to honor an artist, however. They were paying their respects to the best Quaker preacher in Bucks County...
Freshman Downey placed 21st in a field of 86 swimmers in the 100-yd. backstroke with a time of 1 minute 4.5 seconds, her best of the season, after being seeded 70th in the event. Downey also finished 34th of 99 swimmers in the 200-yd. individual medley...