Word: herman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, by the absence of daily deadlines and by the magazine format of the Atlanta Weekly. During his five years there, he interviewed people as diverse as California Angels' manager Gene Mauch ("a very strange and interesting man ... he's liable to do anything, really"), former Georgia Sen. Herman Talmadge (defeated last fall), and Billy Carter. Laughing, Oney remembers quoting Carter as saying, in a fit of irritation over Plains' influx of tourists, "The only solution for this town is to pour some gasoline on it, light a match, and burn it down." Carter's clan wasn't tickled with...
...Herman Wouk, 66, presiding over a Truman Capote lookalike contest? No, just posing with some extras for the ABC-TV mini-series of his sprawling novel The Winds of War, to be aired next year. When the author dropped by during location shooting in Siena, Italy, he was written in for a nonspeaking walk-on as an archbishop. Director Dan Curtis figured there was no point in making it all play and no Wouk...
...Herman Nickel...
...November 20, 1820, the Nantucket whaling ship Essex was attacked by a sperm whale, and sank in mid-Pacific. The incident provided Herman Melville the ending for Moby Dick. It also sent the 20-man crew of the Essex zigzagging across open ocean for three months in three 23-ft. whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic...
Other survivors wore T shirts with imprints of names, towns and camps. Among them was Jolan Deitch, 59, a Los Angeles housewife who lost her first husband, Herman Hornstein, in Auschwitz. Their daughter Erica, an office manager for a Los Angeles computer firm, wore a red-and-white shirt bearing the names of her mother's closest relatives. When Mrs. Deitch waited in line to consult the computer, another survivor complained that she would take up too much time with so many names to look up. Replied Mrs. Deitch, in tears: "It is better for you that your list...