Word: sarasota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. MacKinlay Kantor, 73, prolific writer best known for his Pulitzer-prizewinning novel Andersonville, which depicted the brutalities of a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Kantor, great-grandson of a Union Army officer, first became intrigued by the Civil War at the age of ten, when he perused a Civil War encyclopedia. The intrigue became an obsession 20 years later as he launched his 42-book career. A stickler for accuracy, he did prodigious research, visiting and revisiting Gettysburg and Andersonville for his Civil War novels and flying eleven combat missions with...
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...Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa. Hale, 58, decided to try to find out why so many people prefer to be unchurched. Doing so he logged 30,000 miles by air, auto, foot and boat, even visiting almost inaccessible "hollers" in West Virginia and a topless bar near Sarasota, Fla. He lived for a month in each of six counties ranked by Glenmary as among the country's most irreligious.* Though social conformity makes church shunners tend to keep their views to themselves, Hale located 165 of them for intensive interviews...
Miss Eunice Fickett, who has been the pillar of The Crimson's business office since she came here in August, 1961, leaves the paper today to begin her retirement in Sarasota...