Word: hopelessness
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Died. Dorothea Lange, 70, noted photographer of the hopeless poor, whose stark portraits of Depression breadlines and "Okie" refugees helped shock the public into supporting Government relief projects, and led Edward Steichen to call her "without doubt our greatest documentary photographer"; of cancer; in San Francisco...
Harvard played the junior Eagles even in the second half, but couldn't score again until the fourth quarter, when Bob Machin blocked a punt and Tony Kilkuskie recovered the loose ball in the end zone. Then in a spectacular but hopeless finish, Berg passed 32 yards to halfback Gary Strandemo, who made an acrobatic grab on the goal line as the final gun sounded...
...voluntarily went to a veterans mental hospital in Sheridan, Wyo. When he was given town privileges, though, Holm wasted no time getting drunk and passing out on the hospital lawn. "It's my opinion," said a harried doctor after locking up the patient, "that you're a hopeless alcoholic and should spend the rest of your life in this ward...
...George R. Lamade, 71, second-generation publisher of the conservative, family-owned weekly newspaper Grit (circ. 1,170,000), a favorite in 16,000 U.S. small towns, who kept up his father's policy of salting the news with cracker-barrel sayings (sample: "When things begin to appear hopeless and desolate, try looking in the other direction."); by his own hand (gunshot); in Williamsport...
...sings, but also why he sings." Not a splashy, booming singer, he achieves the utmost theatrical effect with subtle shadings of his husky, light-timbered voice. Son of a Berlin high school principal, Fischer-Dieskau had barely begun his career when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at 18. Hopeless as a cavalryman, he was demoted to tending the horses, pacified the animals in their stables by serenading them long into the night. Captured in 1945, he spent the next two years performing before captive audiences at various P.O.W. camps in Italy, was so prized by his U.S. captors that...