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...Angel Mangual, pinch hitting for Oakland A's pitcher Rollie Fingers, drilled a single up the middle to drive in the winning run in a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds...
...HOUR PERIOD Alexander Vasilich Samsonov, commanding general of a disintegrating Russian Army, has a vision of an angel of death coming to carry him off, seriously appeals to God for divine intervention on the Russian side in the battle of the Tannenberg Forest, and fails to remember the name of one of his subordinate generals. Like other subjects of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's August 1914, the general smoothly slips out of the 20th century and falls into an almost insane incompetence...
...winnowed Western thought into Great Books of the Western World, a 54-volume set of 443 works by 74 authors (from Homer to Freud), which was published in 1952. To help readers explore those works, he classified man's search for wisdom into 102 basic ideas (from "Angel" to "World") and fashioned an index which he called the Syntopicon, meaning "collection of topics." It directs a reader exploring the ideas to every mention of them in the Great Books, plus the Bible...
Died. Louis R. Lurie, 84, self-made multimillionaire, philanthropist and theater angel; in San Francisco. Lurie was selling newspapers in Chicago at age nine when a neighborhood bully beat him so badly that he was crippled for nearly ten years. After making a stake in the printing business, he settled in San Francisco and began building a $100 million fortune in real estate speculation and construction. Show business was one of his enduring interests; among the hits he backed were Song of Norway, The Teahouse of the August Moon and Fiddler on the Roof...
...rest of the album is dredgedup old rockers, which I for one don't begrudge one bit. The most intriguing cut on the album is Hendrix's "Angel." Now, nobody ever covers Hendrix songs, simply because they're much too complex, lyrically as well as musically. But Eric Clapton brought off "Little Wing," and Stewart brings off "Angel," partially because it is one of Hendrix's simplest compositions, in both respects. He's therefore able to remain faithful to its arrangement, and infuse it with some of its original mysticism...