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...Chessman from the faceless men on the world's Death Rows because Chessman wrote his way out of obscurity. Most of the men sentenced to death for criminal offenses in the Western world are inarticulate and without the influence that Caryl Chessman's talents as writer and self-taught advocate have brought to his cause. They tend to be, said Governor Brown in his message asking the legislature to abolish capital punishment, "the weak, the poor, the ignorant." But Chessman wrote a bestselling book, Cell 2455 Death Row.* Published in 1954, it has sold 500,000 copies...
Died. Heitor Villa-Lobos, 72, self-taught, prolific Brazilian composer who combined the counterpoint of Bach with the vigorous rhythms of native Brazilian music in more than 2,000 works (Bachianas Brasileiras, Seréstas), gloried in the fact that he constantly shifted his style, followed no one line of development or school, founded the Brazilian National Academy of Music, directed massive choruses drawn from all levels of the population; in Rio de Janeiro. In a life of strenuous activity, Villa-Lobos lived up to his own code: "Life is a gamble, and I'm for gambling." He voyaged...
...Charles H. Dow, Edward D. Jones and Charles M. Bergstresser, who had made a modest mark by peddling financial news to customers around Wall Street, the Journal was conceived as a stock-market chronicle in 1889. When Dow. Jones & Co. was sold in 1902 to Clarence Walker Barron, a self-taught finance expert from Boston, Barron kept the Journal hard on course...
...still ends up in that spot." Ekblom has not ended up in that spot because Hupp is only one of his interests. The son of an immigrant cabinetmaker, Ekblom went to work after grammar school, earned enough money to set up an auto repair shop at 16, became a self-taught expert in economics, accounting, corporate law and management. He turned his hand to selling cars and several other businesses, became a corporate doctor for sick companies, opened a Wall Street brokerage firm. Five years ago he bought 6% of the shares of Hupp at a time when the onetime...
...entirely the work of an accomplished, 20-year-old Eskimo girl, Mary Panegoosho, daughter of a respected hunter from Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost point. Despite only three years of formal schooling (fifth to eighth grade in Hamilton, Ont. ), Mary is a skillful artist and writer, a competent self-taught photographer and typist who produced most of the gay line drawings that decorate the magazine, contributed most of the photographs, wrote several of the articles. The only other Inuktitut staffer is Abraham Okpik, 30, a stocky hunter from Aklavik...