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...nation thought it saw a man being destroyed. He was accused of stealing $370.000 from the members of his International Brotherhood of Teamsters, of betraying his friends and of robbing a friend's widow. Robert F. Kennedy, then the Senate committee's chief counsel, wrote an early epitaph: "He was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dave Beck's Success Story | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Poetry, the late Wallace Stevens was fond of saying, is the one reality in an otherwise wholly imaginary world. Shortly before his death in 1955, he wrote a poetic summation of the poetic experience that serves well as an epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Necessary Riddle | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...history. His prose and poetry have appeared in about 125 anthologies here and in England. Some of his short verses have travelled by word-of-mouth so fast and far that they often turn up credited to "Anonymous." One of the epigrams credited to his name is his "Epitaph for a Walter": Bye and bye God caught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: David McCord Will Retire After 37 Years of Service | 5/9/1962 | See Source »

Says Nyasaland's Hastings Banda : "We will soon write the Elephant's epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Africa: Royboy | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...hopeful, revolutionary years of a half-century ago when Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China. Like his country, Hu Shih's own family was split: one son is on the Communist mainland, another in the U.S. For his many friends, Dr. Hu Shih's epitaph could be taken from one of his own poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nationalist China: The Departed Traveler | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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