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Died. James Andrew Hagerty, 85, longtime dean of U.S. political reporters who in 44 years on the old New York Herald and New York Times scored some of journalism's most notable beats (including one on the lamplight swearing-in of President Coolidge in Vermont), a ruggedly independent newsman who advised his son to steer clear of political press-agentry but came to take high pride in "Young Jim's" performance as Dwight Eisenhower's press secretary; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...yellow lamplight while the arks...
Lost Teeth. In sweltering Conakry, once a cheerful little city where the Africans ate out of doors by lamplight and danced into the night under the mango trees, the streets were deserted by 10 p.m. and the houses dark and locked. By day, the Capitol's 80,000 people went about their business nervously. The secret police, guided by Communist instructors imported from Czechoslovakia, were equipped with concealed Czech-made wire recorders, listening for the chance remark that would betray a "Gaullist enemy of the state...
Little Manabu tended rice and vegetables between the rows of coffee trees, gradually grew husky enough to tote the 88-lb. coffee sacks. He taught himself to read Portuguese at night by kerosene lamplight, hoarded scraps of paper to make sketches on. But the heavy farm work, plus malaria and amoebic dysentery, bore down relentlessly on the family. The father proved too thin and weak for field work, devoted his waning life to drinking pinga (sugarcane spirits), finally died of cancer. Mabe, the eldest of the seven children, borrowed enough money to become a small-time farmer, struggled to keep...
...style may also be responsible for some of the difficulty he presents to listeners. It is taut and lean; a poem like "By Lamplight" moves along so fast that even knowing what the situation is hardly helps one keep up with it. Mr. Kunitz reads well, emphasizing the brittle sonic effects and providing real dramatic power where it is called...