Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edward Albee will be making his fourth annual on-Broadway appearance with Malcolm, a dramatization of Novelist James Purdy's black comedy tracking a 15-year-old's picaresque trail to destruction. Tennessee Williams will be represented by Slapstick Tragedy, which he calls "a pair of fantastic allegories on the tragicomic subject of human existence on this risky planet...
...onetime Masters Champion Jack Burke, Marr, 31, is typical of golf's second-magnitude stars. He started as a caddy, worked his way up to pro-shop flunky, golf-club and software salesman, caddy master and teaching pro before setting out five years ago on the tournament trail. He won $12,066 his first year, was up to $37,142 last year, and got his first real taste of glory when he sank a 30-ft. putt to tie Nicklaus for second place (behind Arnold Palmer) in the 1964 Masters...
...Perspectives. This final installment opens on the battle of Fredericksburg and closes with Lincoln's assassination. "It was the heaviest bullet, all things considered," writes Catton, "ever fired in America." Wherever possible Catton finds new perspectives along that blood-soaked two-year trail. Of Chickamauga, he writes: "The Union government sent 37,000 soldiers to Tennessee: the Confederacy sent Jefferson Davis. The contrast does not reflect different ideas about what was needed: it simply measures the extent of the resources at hand. Each government did the most it could...
...Coast Guard boarding party found three bullet-riddled bodies in the aft cabin. The body of Captain Rogelio Díaz, 38, was not on the bridge, but a trail of blood led over the side. Gone were Ramírez, Second Engineer Salomon Franco and Cook Gerald Davison-and the ship's 14-ft. dinghy...
...with an older and stronger boy. "I was about ready to holler calf rope when his knife fell out of his pocket. I slammed it into his hip and started for the setting sun." Somewhere west of Jacksboro, Jim stopped running and took his first job as a cowboy: trail hand on a cattle drive to Montana. At 15, he pulled a man's weight on the job, running all night with the stampeding herd and even swimming the notorious Yellowstone River (" Tis such a suck to it that to sink is a gone fawn skin") with his bunch...