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...rest of his life. He was a mediocre student, and a mediocre athlete headed for an undistinguished career at Harvard until the war intervened. At 19, he headed for France. His four-year stint in the American Ambulance Corps presumably spurred the development of his macabre sensibility, but Geoffrey Wolff offers virtually no explanation as to why experiences shared by so many young men had such a unique impact on Crosby...
BLACK SUN by GEOFFREY WOLFF 367 pages. Random House...
...Geoffrey Wolff reports in this thoughtful and very readable biography, Crosby, who was 31, had been promising for years to commit suicide. He spoke and wrote about death in the dreamy, love-struck manner of a man talking about the sloop he is going to buy when he finishes putting his kids through college. To honor death, he wore a black carnation in his buttonhole. He saw suicide as a triumphant adventure, as a poet's most splendid poem, as a giggle, as a glorious stunt and especially as an explosive union with the godhead...
...cash for goods shipped to the firm. To reassure its nervous bankers, Abercrombie's unpaid chairman, Harry G. Haskell Jr., a wealthy sportsman himself (yachting, hunting) and former mayor of Wilmington, Del., who is also A. & F.'s largest stockholder, brought in a corporate surgeon. He is Geoffrey Swaebe, 65, a British-born retailing executive who made his reputation running Los Angeles' May Co., a part of the big St. Louis-based department store chain, in the 1960s and early 1970s. Swaebe quit as May's president four years ago to freelance his skills among ailing...
Callaghan can probably count on strong popular support for the new policy. Recent polls suggest that as much as 70% of the country backs tax relief in return for stringent pay restraint. Even the Tories approved; Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservatives' shadow Chancellor, admitted that the plan reflected "a greater sense of realism...