Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seats in the chancel in back of the orchestra. Boston's E. Power Biggs slid onto his bench at the organ. The soloists, including the Metropolitan Opera's bass, Mack Harrell, took their seats in front. In decorous silence-there is no applause in Packer Chapel-Welsh-born Conductor Ifor Jones strode to the podium. After a darting look around, he lifted his hands to begin the great double-chorused Passion According to St. Matthew that Johann Sebastian Bach had composed 220 years ago as the 44-year-old cantor of St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig...
Died. Thomas O. Heggen, 29, Iowa-born Navy veteran who turned his wartime experience in the Pacific into the bestselling (more than 850,000 copies) novel Mister Roberts, collaborated with Joshua (South Pacific) Logan to turn it into a Broadway smash hit; by drowning in his bathtub after taking sleeping pills; in Manhattan...
Died. Archbishop Damaskinos (born Dimetrios Papandreou), 58, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) white-bearded Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church; after a heart attack; in Psychico, Greece. A onetime army private (in the 1912 Balkan War) an amateur wrestler, Damaskinos entered the priesthood in 1917, was elected Archbishop in 1938 but was exiled to a monastery by Dictator John Metaxas. He returned as Archbishop three years later, vigorously opposed the Nazi-led occupation (he sheltered Athens' Jews, offered himself as a hostage, went to the Germans carrying a rope and dared them to hang him). As regent...
Died. James Truslow Adams,† 70, Brooklyn-born scholar and historian, winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in History for The Founding of New England, author of more than 20 volumes on the U.S. (The Epic of America, 1931) and Britain (Building the British Empire, 1938); in Southport, Conn...
This new biography makes it clear how Emerson struggled to keep close to the common life. It was not easy. Born in Boston in 1803, the son of a preacher, forbidden to play with "rude boys," Ralph Waldo used to hang on the fence, peering down the street in the hope that he would discover what a rude...