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...wake of the suicide of the author and journalist J. Anthony Lukas '54, David Halberstam '55--the prize-winning journalist--last night spoke about his friend and colleague's life and work...
Though the murder took place in 1905, Halberstam emphasized the relevance of Lukas's book to today. He said that the eight years of work on the book took a toll on Lukas, who suffered from clinical depression...
...Lukas was a person who was significantly undermined by the demons who bothered him," Halberstam said...
...young reporters, Halberstam and Lukas met at The Crimson 45 years ago, and they worked together at The New York Times for many years...
...says, "I took the new Stalin biography, a book about Hewlett-Packard, Seven Summits [a mountaineering book by Dick Bass and the late Disney president Frank Wells] and a Wallace Stegner novel." He's also a fan of Philip Roth's, John Irving's, Ernest J. Gaines' and David Halberstam's, but his all-time favorite novels are the schoolboy standards The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby and A Separate Peace. A nearby room will be filled by an enormous trampoline; at the office he sometimes surprises colleagues by joyfully leaping to touch the ceiling, and he finds...