Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAMMARSKJOLD: THE STATESMAN AND HIS FAITH by Henry P. Van Dusen. 240 pages. Harper...
When he died in an African plane crash in 1961, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjdld left behind a book that he had been working on secretly for 36 years, a slim volume of 600 poems, prayers and aphorisms dealing with "birth and death, love and pain." Hammarskjold's Markings (TiME, Oct. 23, 1964) was an instantaneous success. "Everybody owns Dag Hammarskjold's Markings," said retired Episcopal Bishop Malcolm Endicott Peabody. "But few have read it. Few of those have understood it." What fascinated the public, though, was far less the book's content than the striking contrast...
...this admiring spiritual biography, Theologian Van Dusen argues that there is no incongruity between diplomat and diarist. After studying Hammarskjold's correspondence and talking with scores of his friends and associates, Presbyterian Van Dusen has been able to relate the entries of Markings to the changing moods of the statesman's life...
...swamp gas might have been particularly thick around Manhattan that day. Knut Hammarskjöld, 44, director general of the International Air Transport Association, was conjuring up otherworldly aircraft at a meeting of the Aviation Space Writers Association. "I must make a confession," said Knut, whose Uncle Dag Hammarskjold was rather a mystic before him. "I believe in those Unidentified Flying Objects. Is it really unlikely that there exist civilizations outside our planet which are more developed, both technically and mentally, than we are? Are these space neighbors of ours getting more interested in what we are doing...
Lillian Ross is a girl-about-town. She frequents the Village, Central Park, the hairdresser's and other people's apartments. Her tastes in celebrities range from the late Dag Hammarskjold to Zero Mostel to Miss Teen-Age America to Lassie (her favorite television star). What makes Miss Ross different from thousands of other girls-about-town is that she writes about it. With deftness, lucidity, and wit. In Talk Stories, a collection of sixty "Talk of the Town" pieces from the New Yorker. Miss Ross has further established her reputation as a reporter sans rival and shows another side...