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...Married. Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin Jr., 45, second man to step on the moon as a member of the 1969 Apollo crew and later the victim of a nervous breakdown described in his autobiography, Return to Earth; and Interior Decorator Beverly Van Zile; both for the second time; in Baja California...
...tragic results of an unequal friendship (long before Midnight Cowboy.) And also for those who like to argue whether the book was better, The Last Hurrah is at Lehman Hall this weekend. Most people think that's the name of an overpriced steakhouse; actually it's the title of Edwin O'Connor's elegiac novel about an aging lrish pol. In the movie, Spencer Tracy plays the grand old mayor of a grand old New England city (guess which one) fighting for his political life. A must...
...Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and director of the Japan Institute, said of his experience with foreign visitors, "The ones I see have some interest in East Asia itself, and want to talk to me as an authority. Most are European newspapermen who ask my opinion on American-East Asian foreign policy...
...dealer: "The field is governed in great part by emotion, the feelings that collectors have toward the individuals who have written."Nonetheless, villains too have autograph appeal. Papers signed by John Wilkes Booth sell for around $1,000, ten times as much as writings by his gifted brother Edwin Booth. Benedict Arnold's three-page will sold for $2,800. Two known letters from Jesse James are worth between $5,000 and $10,000. Documents of Nazi leaders command high prices. Producer David Wolper, a collector of note, has a Christmas card that was sent by Al Capone...
Friends of Edwin L. Godkin founded the lecture series in 1903. The lectures are to deal with "the essentials of free government...