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Neither burning out nor fading away, Young is pausing to add an embellishing brush stroke to the picture of his musical career thus far. He seems confident that he can carry on, writing the songs he believes in, ignoring the births and deaths of transient musical fads...
DIED. Peggy Guggenheim, 81, American-born patroness of 20th century art; following a stroke; in Camposampiero, Italy. Seven years after losing her father on the Titanic in 1912, Peggy came into her share of the Guggenheim copper fortune and departed for the bohemia of Paris and London. She flamboyantly dallied with writers and artists: two became her husbands (including Painter Max Ernst), many her lovers (including Playwright Samuel Beckett). Bored and between husbands in 1938, she began to collect art, later and anonymously sponsor young artists, adopting the motto "Buy a painting a day." When the Louvre declared...
First, I am glad I graduated last year. What a stroke of good fortune that I was born in 1958, rather than in 1960 or 1961. Too bad, I suppose, for everyone else...
...concern to his pal, the drug dealer suggested a way to retaliate: hand over some incriminating TRW documents to peddle at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. To Boyce, writes New York Times Reporter Robert Lindsey, "his job in the Black Vault became an opportunity to take a saber stroke at both the world's superpowers at once ... and Daulton had had the greed to serve his purpose...
Other oldtimers on the court hung on long after they should have retired. Justice Hugo Black, who died in 1971, tried to cover up a stroke suffered while playing tennis; his colleagues began to wonder if he was becoming senile. In one pathetic scene, Justice John Marshall Harlan, once one of the court's leading intellects, was trying to sign a denial for review from his hospital bed. Nearly blind, he signed the bed sheet instead of the document. Justice William Douglas tried to exert influence even after he retired. He attempted to file a dissent in a campaign...