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DIED. Bruce Catton, 78, pre-eminent Civil War historian and journalist who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for his first trilogy's concluding volume, A Stillness at Appomattox; in Frankfort, Mich. As a child, Catton listened to the yarns of Civil War veterans in his Michigan home town. A...
Suddenly, more than an hour after the puzzling signals began to billow forth, the Vatican's Pericle Felici, ranking Cardinal-deacon in the Sacred College, appeared at the opened Window of the Benediction in the center of St. Peter's Basilica. His Latin words boomed out over loudspeakers: "Annuntio vobis...
Because it is huge, exhaustively researched and written by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., an eminent historian who has won two Pulitzer Prizes, this biography will probably be heralded for years to come as the definitive portrait of Robert F. Kennedy. The book's breadth and scholarship merit this attention...
That settled, the Cardinals will come forward one by one to pay homage to the new Pope. Messages will be dispatched to the octogenarian Cardinals outside the conclave. Then, with the crowds waiting in St. Peter's Square, the senior Cardinal Deacon will step out on the central balcony...
An eminent goldbug, a professional pessimist, Deak understands the psychology of people who have lost faith in mere money and paper shares. Critics, including many stockbrokers, say that Deak has a great 17th century mind, that his views would make Marie Antoinette look like Bella. Abzug. But his opinions are...