Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admiring Stravinsky learned the techniques of orchestration. Stravinsky sent his scores to Rimsky for criticism, including an orchestral fantasy called Fireworks, which he had written to celebrate the marriage of Rimsky's daughter Nadia (see cut). Fireworks came back marked "Not delivered because of the addressee's death...
Nevertheless, many of the stories are notable simply because, in detailing murder and sudden death, they also give pictures-more vivid than history books, more penetrating-than novels-of their times...
Other stories still make exciting reading. Richard Harding Davis gives a clean, dramatic report of a Cuban revolutionist's gallant death before a firing squad (1897) and leaves him "asleep in the wet grass, with his motionless arms still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across his face, and the blood from his breast sinking into the soil he had tried to free." Winifred Black, the original sob sister, sets the pattern for countless future sob sister leads with "I begged, cajoled and cried my way through the line of soldiers" to get into Galveston after...
...Supply, sold his property in Britain, returned to the U.S. to die. Later the same year, Whiteford underwent another operation at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, was told there was no sign of cancer. He gained weight, felt fine, began writing a book about his postponed date with death...
Convinced that anyone who could make money on "such tripe" could certainly run a cotton mill, father Springs took his son back as a vice president (after making him promise that he would write no more books). Since the elder Springs's death in 1931, Elliott, who still flies his own plane, has run the family's vast (some 550,000 spindles) cotton empire, one of the three biggest...