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Today the University squad, as the guests of J. P. Morgan on his yacht Corsair, journeyed almost as far as Newport. Harry Paine Whitney's houseboat, Captiva, took the Yale squad for a sail this afternoon. No rowing was done in either camp today...
DIED. ANNALEE FADIMAN, 85, convention-defying author and World War II correspondent for TIME; a suicide, after suffering from breast cancer and Parkinson's; in Captiva, Fla. A graduate of Stanford, Fadiman moved to China in 1941 without a journalism job but determined to report on the war raging there. The wife of the late writer and critic Clifton Fadiman, she co-wrote with Theodore H. White the 1946 best seller Thunder Out of China...
...divorce in 1978. Once a heavy smoker, she suffered at least two earlier strokes and had recently been confined to a wheelchair. DIED. ANNALEE WHITMORE JACOBY FADIMAN, 85, screenwriter, World War II correspondent and co-author of Thunder Out of China with Theodore H. White, by suicide; in Captiva, Florida. Fadiman reported on World War II for TIME and LIFE magazines after her husband Melville was killed in a freak plane accident in 1942. DIED. ONG TENG CHEONG, 66, who became the first elected President of Singapore in 1993; in Singapore. Citing differences of opinion with the government over...
...task of capturing all this energy on a cover was passed to Robert Rauschenberg. The American artist, whose imagistic collages are chock-full of cultural and historical allusions, created the special cover over four intense days and nights in his studio on Florida's Captiva Island. "There's no such thing as power and politics without personalities," says Rauschenberg, "and power and revolution do not exist with hands in pockets. I hoped to get that across in my cover...
...Ellen Mayeron, manager of the waterfront Mucky Duck restaurant on Captiva Island, off southwest Florida's Gulf Coast, on yesterday's end of the official hurricane season. Because of less windy conditions over the Atlantic, just three hurricanes blew in this season, compared with the annual average...