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DIED. MARTHA GELLHORN, 89, war correspondent, novelist and, only incidentally, Ernest Hemingway's third wife; in London. Gellhorn's dispatches, first filed during the Spanish Civil War and continuing through World War II and Vietnam, focused on the ordinary and powerless. An avid traveler and prolific journalist, she also wrote novels and short stories. Gellhorn married Hemingway in 1940. She left him five years later, the only one of his four wives to do so. He reportedly remained bitter for the rest of his life, and she remained irritated for being best known as his former wife...
Strom Thurmond: R, South Carolina (1) 79 Ernest Hollings: D, South Carolina (5) 33 Dianne Feinstein: D, California (30) 29 Dan Coats: R, Indiana (26) 28 Chuck Hagel: R, Nebraska (39) 28 Byron Dorgan: D, North Dakota (31) 25 William Frist: R, Tennessee (36) 25 Orrin Hatch: R, Utah...
...Ernest J. Wilson III, who entered Harvard in1966 at what may be considered the height of theAmerican Civil Rights movement, set out to createan active social life for himself from day one.Wilson eventually joined the Harvard Lampoon, TheCrimson, the Fly Club and, by senior year, waselected Class Marshal...
DIED. JIMMIE ALBRIGHT, 82, fly-fishing adviser to the famous--among them, Ernest Hemingway and Jimmy Stewart; in Islamorada, Fla. Albright's other contributions to the sport were more tangible: he invented the nail knot and a hitch called the Albright special...
Once labeled a potential "kiss of death" by novelist Saul Bellow, after he won the prize in 1976, the Nobel can be a bittersweet distinction. For William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, the prize was a swan song, a tribute to past masterpieces whose greatness their subsequent work did not approach. For others, it's just a very prestigious distraction. Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 laureate, complained that the prize destroyed her cherished privacy by turning her into an "official person." According to Jonathan Galassi, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Gordimer's and Walcott's publisher...