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Karen Dinesen was nine when her beloved father hanged himself. The aristocrat had been an adventurer and writer in his youth; along the way he contracted syphilis. The symptoms, combined with an inborn melancholia, undid him. His life haunted Karen's. The imaginative, brilliant child read her father's account of his travels with American Indians, written under the Chippewa name Boganis. Her literary career began with a play entitled The Revenge of Truth; when she was 22, her first published tale was signed Osceola, the name of a Seminole chief...
Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 49, did it again last week. Or rather, she undid it again. Confirming rumors that her seventh marriage to her sixth husband was shaky, Liz and Republican Senator John Warner, 54, said they would seek a legal separation after five years of marriage. Warner joins an illustrious cast from Liz's previous marital flings: Hotelier Conrad Hilton Jr. in 1950; British Actor Michael Wilding in 1952; Producer Mike Todd in 1957; Singer Eddie Fisher in 1959; and Actor Richard Burton in 1964 and again in 1975. In the early stages...
...final game the Islanders almost undid it again. They surged ahead 4-2, then let the Flyers catch up. But 7 min. 11 sec. into sudden death, John Tonelli took a pass from Lome Henning and snapped it to Bobby Nystrom, who backhanded the puck into Philadelphia's net. Said Nystrom: "I think that was the first backhand shot I ever scored on in my life...
...remain firmly convinced that the continuation of the crisis is not in the best interest of Iran. It prevents us from pursuing essential domestic and foreign policy goals. But the Americans have done it again. The criminal Shah's escape to Egypt undid a lot that we had achieved, especially in terms of persuading Iranians to fight a legal battle, rather than retain the U.S. hostages, for the extradition of the ex-dictator and retrieval of the fabulous wealth he has plundered. The Panamanian government, encouraged by Washington and prominent pro-Shah U.S. citizens, played games and lied...
...Latin School in Cambridge, Mass., Estlin tried to write a poem a day. Sample at age 16: "God, keep me trying to win the prize;/ Pamper me not,though I be crying./ Though snickering worlds wink owlish eyes, God,keep me trying." Harvard (A.B. 1915, M.A. 1916) all but undid this model boy. His discovery of the decadent poets of the 1890s led him to write lines like "(Oh God!) the wonder of you-" Courtesy of Ezra Pound, he also fell in with free verse and the imagist movement. Poetry henceforth was to be simple, sensuous and direct, images fresh...