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...Morgan, onetime press secretary to former New York City Mayor John Lindsay and now assistant to the publisher of New York magazine. Mary's twin brother Michael disappeared at sea on an anthropological trip to New Guinea in 1961. When his catamaran capsized, he attempted to swim to shore and was never seen again...
That someone would eventually attempt to kill Park was not a great surprise to many Koreans. He has no shortage of enemies, real or imagined: the repressive measures he has imposed since January to shore up his one-man rule have been widely condemned both at home and abroad. Under Park's stern decrees, nine people have been tried and sentenced to death; 162 others have been given prison sentences ranging from three years to life. Last week alone, Park's military courts sentenced 62 opponents of the regime to stiff prison terms for plotting to overthrow...
...best-hearted fellow who ever lived," said former Boston Red Sox Pitcher Ernie Shore. Apparently that was true, except when it came to his two wives. (On road trips Ruth tended to forget that he was married at all.) Fans and teammates loved him, exulting in his excesses, empathizing with his small-boy penitence when disciplined by the ball club, and appreciating, as perhaps only those who follow baseball can, the way he cocked his bat, stepped into a pitch, swung as if to clear the bases. Today only a handful of Americans can identify Roger Maris, who broke...
...were Graham Greene and the double agent Kim Philby. Spying depressed Muggeridge so that he even flirted with suicide one night in Mozambique by swimming out to sea. Unlike Evelyn Waugh, whose attempt to drown himself was foiled by a sting from a jellyfish, Muggeridge simply turned back to shore "without thinking or deciding." Through it all, he affects to find his younger self as vain and misguided as the rest of mankind...
Harvey Brooks and the Fabulous Rhinestones finish Saturday at Sandy's in Beverly on the North Shore. Brooks, the bassist who leads the fast-moving soul band, has the same name as Harvard's dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, and rumor has it they're actually the same person. Check...