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Norman J. Sissman...
Died. Louis Edward Sissman, 48, poet and essayist who was able, he said, to "compartmentalize" his mind and alternate between writing belles-lettres and advertising copy; after a ten-year battle with Hodgkin's disease; in Boston...
...some, no doubt, while watching the show, the daydream (nightdream?) actually is that of being Dick Cavett, L.E. Sissman suggested in a recent New Yorker...
...without reason did Sissman identify Cavett's current residence as "East Egg, Long Island," for Cavett is a modern-day Gatsby who this time has really made it all the way, coming out of the Midwest and through the back door (show biz, instead of bootlegging) to genuine social and financial success in the East. What aspiring Harvard undergrad, watching the show stoned during exam period, could ask for more...
...Temporary Measures" rang with echoes of Shakespeare, Frost and Lowell, but spoke only of Sissman. The speaker who followed, John M. Blum '43, Fellow of Harvard College, also spoke of his life, and of the changes which have occurred in the world since his graduation. Blum spoke of the "age of heroes" which was transpiring while he was in College, of the soldiers in the Second World...