Word: kantor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Kantor, a junior and member of the sailing team, said, "The facilities here are as good as or better than almost anywhere else, and the boats are certainly better maintained." Chuck Rogers, a Business School student, agreed. "This place is really well run, the equipment is good, and they show you how everything works," he explained...
DIED. MacKinlay Kantor, 73, prolific writer best known for his Pulitzer-prizewinning novel Andersonville, which depicted the brutalities of a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Kantor, great-grandson of a Union Army officer, first became intrigued by the Civil War at the age of ten, when he perused a Civil War encyclopedia. The intrigue became an obsession 20 years later as he launched his 42-book career. A stickler for accuracy, he did prodigious research, visiting and revisiting Gettysburg and Andersonville for his Civil War novels and flying eleven combat missions with...
Four of the five patrolmen took civil service tests in April and were among the 73 persons listed as eligible for promotion. The blacks scored 92.38, 90.16, 81 and 89.52 on a 100-point scale. The highest scoring black patrolman, Calvin J. Kantor, ranked twentieth on the civil service eligibility list...
...while in an American D.P. camp, Kantor got the sketches together and created in a single bound book a visual diary of what he had seen, with brief captions, first in Czech, then in what he describes as "the best Prague highschool English I could muster." The Book of Alfred Kantor is simply a facsimile reproduction of that diary: more than 150 small and mostly cramped sketches that had sat in Kantor's library for years until friends persuaded him to have it published...
...skilled child might send home from quite a different sort of camp. Partly for that reason, the book is a rare document that somehow reaches the reader's imagination in more enduring ways than more dramatically horrifying renderings ever could. Horror, of course, is organic to the world Kantor drew. He shows naked bodies being disgorged from a room after Cyclone-B gas has just been tested; the forlorn, rumpled figure of a woman in the snow who committed suicide by touching the high-tension barbed wire around Auschwitz; SS guards abusing prisoners. But he also has dozens...