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Emerson called him "the greatest writer who ever lived." Claudel considered him a "great solemn ass." Jung pronounced him "a prophet." Evelyn Waugh dismissed him as a "wayward dabbler in philosophy." Valery said he was "one of the luckiest throws that fate has ever allowed the human race to make...
...unlikely he has any sorrow about how he has lived his life. For Robbie Risner considers himself "the luckiest man in the world to be doing what I'm doing...
...Even the luckiest people need a star to sigh by-or so it seemed when Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 39, went backstage to visit Broadway's Fanny Girl Barbra Streisand, 22. "I'm really honored," bubbled Barbra, clearly launched into orbit. "I'm always interested in scientific and medical things. Whenever I go to the dentist, I can spend three, three-and-a-half hours there talking about nerve endings and things like that. But about those things up there-I don't know what a star's made of. Do you?" "Good looks-talent...
...everything but split and butter herself. Through the show, she has 18 costume changes and four hair styles. One moment she is hurtling through the air in a celebrational block party, and the next she is singing a deepsong called People ("People who need people are the luckiest people in the world"). One moment she is staggering offstage under a 3-ft. floral headdress that might have been fashioned by a faggot Cherokee, and the next she is an eight-months-pregnant bride in a mock-up Ziegfeld Follies production number...
Died. Marcellus Hartley Dodge, 82, longtime (1920-1955) chairman of Remington Arms Co.; in Madison, N.J. Voted the "luckiest" member of the 1903 Columbia graduating class after inheriting his grandfather's $60 million arms fortune, Dodge used $300,000 of it to bail out the floundering New York Times in 1905, two years later, at 26, married Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller, thus adding an estimated $70 million to the family purse, all of which he shrewdly employed in the stock market and in building Remington into one of the nation's biggest small-arms manufacturers. There are no children...