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...might surprise novelist Thomas Wolfe, born 75 years ago this month, that his papers are currently in Harvard's Houghton Library. Wolfe, the author of "Look Homeward Angel" and "You Can't Go Home Again" felt that his years at Harvard and his attempts to become a playwright were a mistake...
...seemed absolutely inane. Things were going on, things being done, and I was reluctant to leave where I felt the action was. [Also-and this is the most difficult admission for me to make-I had always been a deeply religious person and attended church. I have a guardian angel theory, and I had felt during the program, and still genuinely feel, that the guardian angel had a purpose for me in being there. Bert (her FBI contact) is a devout Roman Catholic, as is Catherine Hearst and to a lesser extent Randy Hearst. I was a devout Episcopalian...
...futile. The cause of the furor was the determination of General Francisco Franco's regime to carry out the death sentence that had been ordered in the cases of five terrorists, each of whom had been convicted of killing a policeman. Two of the condemned men, Angel Otaegui Echevarria, 33, and Juan Paredes Manot, 21, were members of a Basque separatist organization; the other three, Ramón Garcia Sanz, 27, José Humberto Baena Alonso, 23, and José Luis Sánchez-Bravo Solla, 21, were members of a small, recently formed Marxist urban-guerrilla outfit called...
...singer banned photographers and TV cameramen from the Sydney press conference, and Dietrich's representatives handed out a list of two dozen questions that newsmen should avoid asking. Samples: How many grandchildren do you have? How many films did you make? When did you make The Blue Angel? What do you think about women's lib?* Inevitably, someone broke the rules by asking if Dietrich ever planned to make another picture, perhaps her life-story. "Oh dear, I'd be bored stiff," came the reply...
Most of her friends were Americans. In 1903 Edith had begun her famous friendship with another expatriate, Henry James. He was alternately fascinated and appalled by her wealth and her seemingly inexhaustible and sometimes manic energy, which led him to call her "the Angel of Devastation...