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...Berryman jumped to his death last year. He was an author of protean energies, focused on but not limited to poetry. He was himself very nearly as renowned as "Alan Severance, the nationally famous drinker," whom LIFE magazine photographs "holding forth to rapt pals in an Irish pub." Severance's polar positions are rebellion and awe. "Both seemed built in, he was ready to defend both to the death. You had to have both. He saw damned little of either in most Americans at the moment: just cop-out or sheephood, not independence or emulation. Hyperdemocracy, the sovereignty...
Nancy B. Abrams '76 said Tuesday that Union officials reacted favorably to suggestions that a pub be set up next Fall in the Union. Abrams said that her role would be that of a manage and not that of a profit maker...
...pub would be a break even project backed by the Union, she added...
Died. Tim Buck, 82, leader of Canada's Communist Party from 1929 to 1962; of a stroke; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The British-born son of a Tory pub owner. Buck immigrated to Canada in 1912 and helped launch the party nine years later. He faithfully toed the Kremlin line on everything from Stalin's prewar purges to the 1956 invasion of Hungary. Although the party managed to poll 111,892 votes in a 1945 federal election, the number of Communists in Canada had dwindled to fewer than 6,000 by the time he gave up the leadership...
...first "Belfast Special"-a car loaded with 175 Ibs. of gelignite time bombs-destroyed the back of the Old Bailey court building and its year-old $17 million annex and wrecked a three-story hotel and pub across the street. An hour later, 1½ miles to the west, a second car exploded in Whitehall, badly damaging the Ministry of Agriculture and the main army recruiting center. Whole walls were stripped of windows, the frames twisted and buckled. The two blasts injured 194 people, including five policemen, but miraculously caused only one death. The victim was a 60-year...