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DIED. ED CLARK, 88, LIFE photographer and candid chronicler of such Presidents as Truman and Kennedy; in Sarasota, Fla. He is best remembered for a 1945 picture of a grief-stricken bandsman playing an accordion at a train station following the death of Franklin Roosevelt...
...insistent. But he did choose to put his musicians aboard the Titanic. So the band plays as the ocean liner sinks--not Nearer My God to Thee but Handel's Largo--and the stories end, leaving dead calm and chilling mystery. And a few shreds of nautical bandsman's lore, useless now that the old liners are gone. "Who could know beforehand," thinks the bandmaster early in the voyage, "that old ladies threw up at The Tales of Hoffmann if the winds were high...
...striking qualities of the Dead Heads' obsession with the band is that although it is highly personal--the fans think they can sense how Bobby and Jerry feel during any given song--it is remarkably unintrusive. The Dead Heads don't seem to know or care what bandsman is dating or divorcing whom...
...dead: Lance Corporal Jeffery Young, 19; Lieut. Anthony Daly, 23; Trooper Simon Tipper, 19; Corporal Major Roy Bright, 36; Bandsman George Mesure, 19; Bandsman Keith Powell, 24; Warrant Officer 2 Graham Barker, 36; Corporal John McKnight, 30; Bandsman Laurence Smith, 19; Sergeant Robert Livingstone...
...complained about Specialist David B. Cortright's abilities as an Army bandsman at Fort Wadsworth in New York City. But Cortright's antiwar activities were another matter. He signed a protest petition published in the New York Times and distributed literature to fellow band members. After his fiancee and the wives of four other musicians tried to march with the band in an Independence Day parade last year carrying signs saying "NixOn War" and "Military Wives for Peace," the Army had had it. Some band privileges were revoked, and when dissension within the ranks followed, the Army transferred...