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Shakespeare's recollection of a dead son in King John echoes through the literary works of grieving authors, from John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud (1953) to Mary-Lou Weisman's Intensive Care: A Family Love Story (1982). Books about children struck down by disease seem to constitute a genre; by now the reader should be inured. Yet some of those memoirs still have the power to move...
...Howard Lawrence of West Hollywood, Calif., parents of TV's Vicki Lawrence, who have accumulated more than 2,000 covers, achieved their goal in 1958 with a letter simply sent to "John Gunther, Inside New York." But their hobby has exposed them to many unanticipated hazards. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (1945, 1950, 1954) held out until the Lawrences sent him money for postage, Mahatma Gandhi (five-time cover subject) until they donated 10 rupees (then $3.32) to the Indian poor. After the Lawrences wrote to the King of Belgium (1949), the King's administrators contacted...
...Gunther Grass: Another squirt Grass turned 52 on Saturday Besides, he wrote a book called The Flounder...
...explosives in the lavatory, blowing a hole about 4 ft. wide in the side of the aircraft. The undaunted posse of passengers and crew members began battering the hijackers while the pilot struggled to gain control of the plummeting aircraft. "There was a lot of blood and screaming," W.J. Gunther of Flemington, N.J., remembered later. "It was like the French Revolution, and everyone was trying...
...delighted to find a dean who doesn't speak out just because he likes to hear the sound of his voice, who doesn't pull punches, professionally or personally. "He's a non-bullshit fellow and non-phoney. That's not the qualifications of the deans I've known," Gunther--who calls his colleague-to-be a "bright light"--says...