Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Schadenfreude has always been one of humanity's least attractive-but most lucratively exploitable-qualities. Lately, though, in the field of popular music, delight in other people's anguish has reached new levels of callousness-and depressing commercial success.
The composer, who once made it big with Amelia Earhart's Last Flight, feels he has "told the truth" in the ballad, but will not release it until after the Jan. 5 inquest, in case of "any dramatic change." Adds McEnery: "It might be wrong, and I want it...
WE LOVE YOU, CALL COLLECT and DEAR MOM AND DAD are the work of Art Linkletter, who has for years dealt in mischievous humor. The record is a maudlin appeal to an erring daughter, which Linkletter recorded with his own daughter Diane last April. "Come back, come back," trembles Linkletter...
Born. To Princess Margriet, 26, third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and Pieter van Vollenhoven, 29, her commoner husband: their second son and second child; in The Hague.
Married. Russell B. Long, 51, Democratic U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 1948, son of Huey ("Kingfish") Long; and Carolyn Bason, fortyish, a Capitol Hill secretary; he for the second time (his wife of 30 years divorced him last June); in a quiet Presbyterian ceremony in McLean, Va.