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...down the middle in batting practice any more." Aaron, 39, said that even if he does hit No. 715 this year he will play next year. But the 1974 season will be his last. Meanwhile, Aaron plans to marry one of his home-town fans. Billye Williams, 36, a widow with a daughter, 6, met Aaron when she interviewed him for a local television show. Billye later became a regular booster behind the Braves' dugout and the couple have been secretly engaged since Easter...
Abernathy also disclosed a rift between King's widow and the organization he left behind. Coretta Scott King has devoted most of her considerable drawing power as a fund raiser to gathering donations for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change, a research library and memorial to her slain husband. A modern four-block complex to be built only two blocks from the dilapidated S.C.L.C. headquarters on Auburn Avenue, the center is expected to cost over $6,000,000. Abernathy said Mrs. King had been unwilling to share funds with his strapped civil rights organization. King...
...first volume of her magnificent memoir, Hope Against Hope (TIME, Jan. 18, 1971), Nadezhda Mandelstam, widow of Poet Osip Mandelstam, recalled her husband's grim joke on the subject of Russian culture in the 1930s. "Poetry is respected only in this country," he said. "There's no place where more people are killed...
...refer to Aristotle's rules of drama, or Elizabethan concepts of the rise and fall of statesmen, or anything like that. Insofar as it means anything at all, it means "sad." Accordingly, the phrase is given out in subdued undertones, as though a dead man with a brokenhearted widow were weeping in the next room. It is used as if in reference to an accident. And accidents, of course, cannot be avoided, which is precisely the point. Talk of the tragic war in Vietnam ducks responsibility for the war nearly as effectively as talk of moral schizophrenia...
...best-seller world of business-oriented publishing frequently will. Take Ernest Hemingway's Islands in The Stream. The novel, published well after his death, has no merit whatsoever. It did, however, prove two damning points: Hemingway, suffering an unconquerable stasis, was over the hill; his widow, suffering financially, needed the money. Like Hemingway's, John Berryman's Recovery is an unfinished first draft, a rigor mortis novel. But unlike Islands, Recovery maintains respectability...