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Died. Lieut. General Lewis B. Puller, 73, the legendary Leatherneck who became the most decorated Marine in the corps' history; of pneumonia; in Hampton, Va. Weaned on the rousing reminiscences of Confederate veterans, Virginia-born "Chesty"-so called because he always walked like a pouter pigeon-was often described as a born combat leader. According to legend, he went into battle with a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked in his duffel bag. Volunteering as a private in World War I, Puller was commissioned at 20; he first saw action battling bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua...
Died. Frances Parkinson Keyes, 84, Virginia-born gentlewoman, world traveler, associate editor of Good Housekeeping (1923-35), and author of more than 50 books; in New Orleans. Though she never won great critical acclaim, she developed a sizable following for her light, brightly told tales, most often about New Orleans and Southern plantation life, as in Dinner at Antoine's, Crescent Carnival and Steamboat Gothic...
Large, big-shouldered and calmly slow of speech, Virginia-born Jack Beal does not consider his pensive portrayals of present-day odalisques as outright fantasy. Rather, he says, they are a reaction against the ephemeral daydreams he spun as a child in the orphanages to which he was periodically committed because both his parents (now dead) were Faulknerian alcoholics. "Southerners," says he, "can be terribly hung up on fantasies." Schooled in painting at the Chicago Art Institute, Beal builds his compositions as carefully as any Abstractionist-and the sofa or chair in his pictures is as important as the figures...
...Familiar. Too often, however, the contributors to this book are simply blinded by their own racism. The fact that Styron is a Virginia-born white seems to discredit him instantly in the eyes of more than one essayist. Rather typically, Political Scientist Charles Hamilton (Black Power) peevishly sees Styron involved in a white man's plot to divest black people of their "historical revolutionary leaders." Novelist John O. Killens ('Sippi) writes: Styron "is like a man who tries to sing the blues when he has not paid his dues." And several essayists, without even the leavening grace of black humor...
...Baker mocks "overstates," the "crisis-glut" and determined problem solvers. "A solved problem creates two new problems," he writes, "and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to." A sober Washington reporter himself until a sense of futility overcame him, Virginia-born Baker became the Times's first humor columnist six years ago. He uses humor, he says, "to strike a blow for sanity...