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...later, the bride seems despondent. She is found one afternoon lying on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound in her head. A coroner rules that she has committed suicide, and she is buried in the Staunton Hill graveyard, beneath a headstone that bears the Greek words for Little Flower. Her husband moves to Hoover, Ala., works as a stockbroker, and then returns to Athens in April...
DIED. Maybelle Carter, 69, matriarch of country music's Carter family; of Parkinson's disease; in Madison, Tenn. Formed in 1927, the Carter Family trio achieved lasting success by recording such traditional folk songs as Wildwood Flower and Will the Circle Be Unbroken, with member Maybelle becoming celebrated for her alto voice as well as her unique guitar and autoharp licks. When the group disbanded in 1943, Carter started out anew with her three daughters as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, and later toured extensively with Daughter June and her husband Singer Johnny Cash...
...though it is only the fourth time he has left India), he told his companion that he had received a Japanese visa on one condition: stick to religious activities. "What is there to worry about?" wondered the Dalai Lama, 43. "I'm only a simple Buddhist monk. A flower in need of water." He then filled out his landing card-leaving the "occupation" spot blank -and dug into his veal cordon bleu. "Only the most strict Buddhists do not eat meat," he told his astonished companion...
...Maumelle, Ark.; Shenandoah, Ga.; Park Forest South, Ill.; St. Charles, Md.; Cedar-Riverside and Jonathan, Minn.; Gananda and Riverton, N.Y.; Soul City, N.C.; Newfields, Ohio; Harbison, S.C.; Flower Mound and The Woodlands, Texas...
...turned their revolt against their own class into something like a religious principle, so the New York painters declared their separation from American materialism by means of an impassioned sense of the numinous. They found it in nature as well as culture: Arshile Gorky's paintings, full of flower stems and tendons and odd rhythmic copulations of not-quite-abstract form, are among the most exquisite animistic landscapes in the history of romantic painting...