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Died. George Washington Oakes, 55, one of the New York Times's Ochs (Oakes) clan, who founded in 1947 an idealistic but ill-fated London weekly (American Outlook), later wrote a series of successful walking-tour guides to Europe; from injuries suffered in an auto accident that also killed...
The Guns of August, showing shrewd fidelity to its source, begins with film clips that vividly reproduce the opening of Barbara Tuchman's witty and colorful history. The time is May 1910, and a matchless assemblage of European royalty has gathered in London for the funeral of King Edward...
Lackadaisical Lad. The Macy's image was cast by Jack Straus's forebears. Straus is descended from a line of German-Jewish traders who at the turn of the century paid $1,645,000 to buy Macy's, a thriving store that had been founded in 1858...
Half-Measures. The proposals disclosed little sense of realism. A broadened, "elephant" Cabinet would more than likely bog down in the same sort of bickering and flatulent debate that plagued Adoula's ill-fated government. There are few rebel prisoners untainted by the Simba massacres; in fact, there are...
Williams, who never spent more than 30 minutes dashing off a song, was remarkably successful in all categories of gutbucket country-ill-fated love (Cold, Cold Heart), sacred (When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels), "weepers" (My Son Calls Another Man Daddy) and novelty (Jambalaya). His records are still strong...