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...SADDEST STORY by Arthur Mizener. 616 pages. World...
...century of turmoil has turned millions of people into exiles and refugees, the displaced and the dispossessed. Perhaps saddest of all is the plight of those who have found themselves aliens in their native lands. The two stories that follow deal with such groups...
...after the bust of University Hall in the Spring of 1969, for instance, he said, "This is the saddest day in my life. It's terrible to see the community you've been involved in all your life turned on its eats." He reportedly joined three other deans the night before in asking President Pusey to reconsider his decision to call in the police...
Last week, on a day that superficially at least seemed to be less lonely than most, Janis Joplin died on the lowest and saddest of notes. Returning to her Hollywood motel room after a late-night recording session and some hard drinking with friends at a nearby bar, she apparently filled a hypodermic needle with heroin and shot it into her left arm. The injection killed...
...York Philharmonic had long been erased by his direction of the Hallé orchestra (see MILESTONES). The same day, Conductor Jonel Perlea, 69, died in New York, ending a career whose flickering brilliance had been dimmed by war and a succession of illnesses. Then came perhaps the saddest word of all. George Szell, 73, had died in Cleveland, victim of fever, bone cancer and heart attack...