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...friend drove him and his wife, Mary Welsh, to their house in Ketchum, Idaho. "He watched the road a great deal; he was concerned about reaching each appointed destination-seemed worried about the gas supply, the tires, and the road, and followed their progress constantly on a large map which he carried." About 7 o'clock two mornings after they arrived, "he took the final positive action of his life. Like a samurai who felt dishonored by the word or deed of another, Ernest felt his own body had betrayed him. Rather than allow it to betray him further...
Died. Ernest Miller Hemingway, 61, Nobel-prizewinning novelist; by his own hand (shotgun); in Ketchum, Idaho (see BOOKS...
Ernest Hemingway, the storyteller who wrote those lines, was brushing his teeth. It had been, his wife later recalled, a "calm, good-natured" dinner, and she was sitting in her bedroom in their house in Ketchum, Idaho, when an Italian song she had not thought of for years came into her mind- Tutti Mi Chiamano Bionda (Everybody Tells Me I'm Blonde). Mary Hemingway walked across the hall to her husband's room to sing it for him. "I said, 'I have a present for you.' He listened to me, and he finished cleaning his teeth...
...small, quiet funeral took place four days later in the placid village cemetery of Ketchum. To the north, the peaks of the rugged Sawtooth Mountains were still capped with snow. To the east lay the lavish summer greenery of the Wood River Valley. Around the rose-covered coffin gathered only about 50 people, mostly Idaho neighbors and some of Hemingway's always-varied circle of friends-a doctor, a rancher, a hotel man, a onetime operator of a gymnasium. "O Lord," prayed Father Robert Waldmann, pastor of Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church, "grant to thy servant Ernest...
...last week gave new teeth to an old saw: things are rarely what they seem. The FTC filed complaints against four major national advertisers (Standard Brands, Colgate-Palmolive, Alcoa and Lever Bros.), three advertising agencies (Manhattan's Ted Bates & Co. and Foote, Cone & Belding, and Pittsburgh's Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove), and Foote, Cone's Vice President William H. Bambric. The charge: trickery designed to fool the TV viewer...