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...voiced New Zealander was captured by the North Vietnamese while covering a battle in Cambodia. Before she and her five colleagues were released from their 23-day ordeal, a media report suggested that her body may have been found. The resulting attention --including a family memorial service and an obit in the New York Times--was awkward for the modest Webb, who recently referred to the trauma as causing "a bit of a stir at home." She was 64 and had cancer...
Joining Apple's mother as the only ones ever to call him Raymond, the Prince runs an above-the-fold obit: "A man of the Times." Apple was chairman of the Prince in 1956, but just briefly. Poor grades got him kicked out of Princeton for a second time, and he never returned. (Apple eventually picked up his BA from Columbia's School of General Studies—which, according to this Spectator article, appears to be a haven for dropouts.) But the Prince dregs up what it can of Apple's time on campus, spent almost exclusively...
...also recounts how Apple beat out Robert Caro—of "The Power Broker" and "Master of the Senate"—for the Prince chairmanship, and they reprint the article announcing his election. Was Apple's notorious ego behind making that article the lead story? Anyway, from the obit: The next year Apple faced Robert Caro '57 in the election for 'Prince' chairman. The two had long battled for dominance as the star reporter of their class, Milton said...
...freshen my recollection of Ginzburg and his magazine, I looked at the New York Times obit, published the day after his death. He was lionized as "a taboo-busting editor and publisher, who helped set off the sexual revolution in the 1960s with Eros magazine and was imprisoned for sending it through the United States mail in a case decided by the Supreme Court..." The Times described Eros as "a stunningly designed 'magbook' devoted to eroticism... [It] covered a wide swath of sexuality in history, politics, art and literature. Mr. Ginzburg valued good writing, and his contributors included Nat Hentoff...
...Maybe I hear, and feel, something different in Allyson. The Internet Movie Database Obit describes her as having a "raspy voice," and David Thomson, that most gifted of biographical sketch artists, refers to "her petite, sore-throated charm." To my ear, Allyson was a crooner, her voice a salve to her male co-stars' belligerence, grudges or indecision. Those nectarine vocals suited her sweet looks, and the roles assigned her by MGM, when that studio was still America's arbiter of middle-class propriety...