Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "Our lives have come crashing down around us like a pile of trays," Fitzgerald wrote to his friend Edmund Wilson. It is during these last sad years that most of the letters were written, and they show courage and humor in the face of every kind of adversity...
...Protestant missionary in Israel, describes his attempts to convert Eichmann before his execution. After condemning Hull for being "puerile" and for attempting "to browbeat Eichmann into a 'repeat after me' attitude," Lee accepts his claim that Eichmann never recognized his own guilt. He was therefore, Lee says, "no willful Edmund, Richard Ill, Iago, or Flamineo, for the willful ones find out." Men like Eichmann, on the other hand, "have engaged in no quest, no pact, no pursuit in the name of something, they have no moments of lucidity in which they stand judged...
...from the Loop. Most likely to succeed Homer is powerfully built (6 ft 3 in.) Edmund F. Martin, 60, who became president three years ago, then advanced to vice chairman last August as Stewart S. Cort, 52, replaced him. Martin, who now earns $255,663 a year, joined Bethlehem in 1922 as a "looper," or management trainee, worked up from repairman's helper to chief of steelmaking operations...
Born. To Thomas Edmund Dewey Jr., 31, Manhattan investment banker, son of the Republican standard-bearer in 1944 and 1948, and Ann Lawler Dewey, 26, Columbia University doctoral candidate in classics: their first child, a son, first grandchild for Dewey Sr.; in Manhattan. Name: Thomas Edmund Lawler Dewey...
...wonderfully open, eloquent and touching letters records his astonishment at learning that his old Princeton classmate, Edmund Wilson, a man whom he regarded as his literary conscience, was suddenly to be heard expounding Marxist sociology. "Up Mallarmé!" was Fitzgerald's reaction to the dawn of a decade that was to be hostile to his esthetic creed...