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...Epitaph...
General WilliamT. Sherman, no soft touch, provides one epitaph: "Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more of the elements of greatness, combined with goodness, than any other...
Veeck's flair and zest almost eclipsed his reputation as a shrewd baseball man who managed to build contenders on low budgets. He predicted that his tombstone would inevitably bear the message HE SENT A MIDGET UP TO BAT. Once he asked that the epitaph be cleaned up a bit to read, more piously, HE HELPED THE LITTLE MAN. --By John...
...year, Quiz no longer seems made for such moments, and afterward he did not claim the last out as his rightful province. "The higher we think of ourselves," said Quisenberry quietly, "the more chances we have of being disappointed in ourselves." Kansas City could have taken this for an epitaph, but as Toronto learned in the American League play-offs, which the Blue Jays led 3 to 1, the Royals are not fatalists...
...with electronic sound and synthesizers. The band was on the cusp of commercial success, but Curtis, an epileptic who was tortured by his failing marriage, took a sad shortcut to musical immortality. The band's most famous single, Love Will Tear Us Apart, became the singer's memorial-stone epitaph. The story has so far spawned two films - Michael Winterbottom's 2002 24 Hour Party People and a new movie based on a book by Curtis' widow, which begins filming later this year...