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...Jarrell at 51 was killed by a truck while walking on a highway near the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he had ?. lived and taught for many years. In a touching memoir, his widow recalls the "desperate valor" with which he faced the final nervous breakdown before his death. He was "granted a few magic weeks" in which "poems flew at him, short ones, quatrains, haiku, aphorisms, parts of speech, parts of poems, ideas for poems, until just words beat at his head like many wings...
...works displayed on the rustic grounds of their summer place on Long Island, but each one gains a new dimension be side the woods and water. Indeed, Giacometti's worn but stately woman seems plainly made to stroll among the maples in the moonlight. Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, widow of the Milwaukee indus trialist, missed Gerhard Marcks's Bremen Town Musicians so much after she lent it to the Milwaukee Art Center that she took it back again, keeps it illuminated at night so she can observe it while dining...
...young widow and mother of two small children, Mrs. Gertraud H. Stewart, who three days later in the Pentagon accepted from Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor the 18th Medal of Honor won in Viet...
Admittedly, it is a dicey proposition: Daphne is hardly escapist fare. Sandy plays the suicidal widow of a movie star; her co-star plays a man who has just run over his son in a driveway accident. But Sandy, chewing over and blowing her lines at rehearsals, is so hyped up about the Boston opening Sept. 4 that some fear she may blow all the fuses. "Marty," she asked Manager Martin Bregman at one desperate juncture last week, "how much do we lose if we quit...
...Russians. An all-woman Cabinet appeals to him to fulfill his duties. "My greatest achievement," he recalls, "was to produce the goods for Britain 113 times in one week." But when the dreams end, Reaney is strictly a power failure. He attributes one blowout to the fact that the widow in the upstairs flat had bad breath. He talks a young singer out of bed by asking the equivalent of what's a nice thing like you doing in show biz. He finally finds happiness in a most old-fashioned way: with his best friend's wife...