New York Times Obituaries Index 1969-1978 Published byMicrofilming Corporation of America, 1980 ISBN 10: 0667005986ISBN 13: 9780667005983 Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A. Berra, Casey Stengel said, is a very strange fellow of very remarkable abilities.. Some critics of Dr. King said that one reason for this letter was to answer Negro intellectuals, such as the wrier James Baldwin, who were impatient with Dr. King's belief in brotherhood. Last week, responding to news reports that Princes plane had made an emergency landing because of a health scare, Ms. Noel-Schure said Prince was fighting the flu.. But Prince could always draw and satisfy a live audience, and concerts easily sustained his later career. The enormous impact of Dr. King's words was one of the reasons he was in the President's Room in the Capitol on Aug. 6, 1965, when President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act that struck down literacy tests, provided Federal registrars to assure the ballot to unregistered Negroes and marked the growth of the Negro as a political force in the South. An evidence of the deep impression his work made on the public mind is the fact that the Standard Dictionary now contains a verb, "houdinize," meaning "to release or extricate oneself (from confinement, bonds, or the like), as by wriggling out." Nonviolence is our most potent weapon.". Love love love this book. The Negro extremists he criticized were contemptuous of Dr. King. Mrs. Gabrilowitsch will aid Mr. Paine in the final decision as to what use shall be made of these. Smith dropped, shot through the thigh. On Dec. 1, 1955, they learned, almost by accident. No other showman, unless it was Barnum, knew better how to arouse the curiosity and amazement of the public in this manner. In his first big league game, he had two hits, including a home run. Edward VII of England told her she was the best rifle shot in the world and gave her a medal. Not some men. Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2019. Berras Yogi-ness was exploited in advertisements for myriad products, among them Puss n Boots cat food and Miller Lite beer but perhaps most famously Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink. Designed with more than 150 black-and-white photographs, this tomb-sized book plus website package is the perfect gift. 2021 Great book, to read and write about obituaries. In a career that lasted from the late 1970s until his solo Piano & a Microphone tour this year, he was acclaimed as a sex symbol, a musical prodigy and an artist who shaped his career his way, often battling with accepted music-business practices. They had better swallow this lie if they want to save their abandoned reptile carcasses the cowhiding they so richly deserve.". Born into wealth, he became a billionaire in founding an aggressive Boston private equity firm. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me.". He increased his fame and fortune by lending his name to, and supervising for decades, popular suspense anthologies and magazines with tales by many writers. I think that these things are likely to give more than usual permanency to his writings. He would often follow a full-tilt arena concert with a late-night club show, pouring out even more music. And to many millions of American whites, he was one of a group of Negroes who preserved the bridge of communication between races when racial warfare threatened the United States in the nineteen-sixties, as Negroes sought the full emancipation pledged to them a century before by Abraham Lincoln. He worked briefly as a technical calculator for a cable company, but soon abandoned technology for art, becoming an advertising layout draftsman for a London department store. The trip down the river awakened the old desire to be a pilot, which had slumbered since the Hannibal days, and his career as a printer was ended. The work of most writers could be produced in any country, but I think we, as well as everybody in foreign lands will look upon Twain's work as being as closely related to this country as the Mississippi River itself. Ah, didn't I want to try! That was repeated at intervals and I could recognize that the man who seemed unconscious and at death's door was talking to me in code. From Albany he and his company went to Schenectady. NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES: Complete listing of New York Times Obituaries powered by Legacy.com Powered By OBITUARIES FUNERAL HOMES SEND FLOWERS NEWS & ADVICE MEMORIALS Obituaries and. Obituaries and Guest Books; BROWSE. You've trampled over 19 million of your brethren. They said they had no idea how many pills the actress might have taken, or whether any overdose might have been accidental. Prince recorded the great majority of his music entirely on his own, playing every instrument and singing every vocal line. Get our newsletter here, Visit the New York Times I think youll always be able to do what your ear tells you, he told his high school newspaper, according to the biography I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon (2013) by the critic Tour. Neither did, and Mark Twain was soon back in San Francisco penniless and ill. "'Now, here's the way this stuff ought to be written,' said the chief editor. Looking back on that last performance, the large audience now realizes that the famous magician did his tricks under a great strain. He was remembered as a kinder, gentler corporate raider. Contact seller Seller Rating: Book Used - Hardcover Condition: Good US$ 4.50 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. In 1900 he made his first visit abroad, and in London his sensational escapes from handcuffs at Scotland Yard won him a six months engagement at the Alhambra. Until 2 p.m. Sunday for Mondays editions. It went as follows: King: I hear they are going into your homes and doing nasty thing and beating you. He had plenty of eccentricities: his fondness for the color purple, using U for you and a drawn eye for I long before textspeak, his vigilant policing of his music online, his penchant for releasing troves of music at once, his intensely private persona. He avoided exercise and fiction, and voraciously read contemporary biographies, travel books and true- crime accounts. When you come to a fork in the road, take it, he said, giving directions to his house. According to dispatches from Nice Miss Duncan was hurled in an extraordinary manner from an open automobile in which she was riding and instantly killed by the force of her fall to the stone pavement. To thrill the general public he would hang from the roof of a skyscraper, bound in a strait-jacket, from which he would wriggle free to the applause of the crowd in the street below. Or, visit our Help Center to learn more about The New York Times. A number of other well-known men were present, all of them having intelligence of a high order. They then beat the Reds in the League Championship Series before losing to the Oakland Athletics in the World Series. It was the humor of human nature. Prince, the songwriter, singer, producer, one-man studio band and consummate showman, died on Thursday at his home, Paisley Park, in Chanhassen, Minn. He took part in the invasion of Normandy and, two months later, in Operation Dragoon, an Allied assault on Marseilles in which he was bloodied by a bullet and earned a Purple Heart. His wife died some years ago and on the morning before Christmas, last year, his daughter, Miss Jean Clemens, was drowned in a bathtub in their home at Redding, Conn. But it also led to her being blacklisted by Mormon leaders. In low spirits she withdrew to her one-story stucco house in an upper middle-class section, which was far different from the lavish suites of the Beverly Hills Hotel that had been more typical of her. She was tired, she said. . He marked the change with a triple album, independently released on his own NPG label: Emancipation.. He won the 1967 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and "Rebecca," his first American movie, won an Oscar as the best film of 1940. At twenty-two minutes past 6, with the sunlight just turning red as it stole into the window in perfect silence he breathed his last. His famous telegram to a newspaper publishing a report of his death, when happily it was intrigue, has been quoted and requoted almost everywhere. Prince spent some time living with each parent and immersed himself in music, teaching himself to play his instruments. On June 8 Miss Monroe was dismissed by Twentieth-Century-Fox for unjustifiable absences during the filming of "Something's Got to Give," in which she was starred. The president of Morehouse, Dr. B. E. Mays, took a special interest in Martin, who had decided, in his junior year, to be a clergyman. Berras career was punctuated by storied episodes. His mental attitude, combined with his unusual stamina, did much to prolong his life. Even more dramatic, in some ways, was his reaction to the bombing of his home during the boycott. Francois Truffaut, a leading director of France's New Wave, praised him as "the most complete film maker" of all American directors and "an all-round specialist, who excels at every image, each shot and every scene. His removal from the hotel to the hospital was made at the suggestion of his family physician, William Stone of New York City, who had been notified by telephone of his friend's condition. We must have compassion and understanding for those who hate us. Long Life, Struggles, and Achievements of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was considered the best-known American man of letters. He showed no outward signs of a return to consciousness. Every week he wrote lushy 'poetry' for The Journal about his newest conquest. Militant Negroes, with the cry of, "burn, baby burn," argued that only by violence and segregation could the Negro attain self-respect, dignity and real equality in the United States. If you need help with your subscription or account, select a topic below for assistance. (This was a harbinger of deals to come. Houdini would not disappoint his admirers. At the time he was assassinated in Memphis, Dr. King was involved in one of his greatest plans to dramatize the plight of the poor and stir Congress to help Negroes. Learn more. on weekends and U.S. holidays. His first album, For You (1978), gained only modest attention. Working with his screenwriter for months, he freely adapted material, writing up to 100-page shot schedules without dialogue. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. Photos for Saturday, Sunday and Monday must be submitted by 12 noon on Friday. We had worked together on the stage and had a private telegraphic code for signaling messages. In releasing him, the officer said, "That's what we do to naughty boys." As a Yankee, Berra became a fan favorite, partly because of his superior play he batted .305 and drove in 98 runs in 1948, his second full season and partly because of his humility and guilelessness. Get the weapon of non-violence, the breastplate of righteousness, the armor of truth, and just keep marching. An ardent athlete but an indifferent student, Berra dropped out of school after the eighth grade. : 1 hits in Lets Go Crazy and When Doves Cry, he at one point in 1984 had the No. Most of it has been willed to the National Museum at Washington. When there was talk of a "return" submergence contest between the magician and the fakir, Houdini made preparations to defend his title with all the care that he was wont to exercise in working up his baffling feats. But she was not recognized internationally until after her death, when her memoirs were translated into English. Dr. Leo Kretzka, a prominent physician, made a hurried examination and told the patient there were symptoms of appendicitis. Her marriages to and divorces from Joe DiMaggio, the former Yankee baseball star, and Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize playwright, were accepted by millions as the prerogatives of this contemporary Venus. Universally known simply as Yogi, probably the second most recognizable nickname in sports even Yogi was not the Babe Berra was not exactly an unlikely hero, but he was often portrayed as one: an All-Star for 15 consecutive seasons whose skills were routinely underestimated; a well-built, appealingly open-faced man whose physical appearance was often belittled; and a prolific winner, not to mention a successful leader, whose intellect was a target of humor if not outright derision. Reviewers acclaimed his virtuosity in creating a rhythm of anticipation with understated, sinister overtones, innovative pictorial nuance and montage, brilliant use of parallel editing of simultaneous action, menacingly oblique camera angles and revealing cross-cutting of objective shots with subjective views of a scene from an actor's perspective. In his teens, he was determined to break into film making, and by brashness and ability he won a job in 1920 writing and illustrating title cards for silent pictures. But while setting up the piece I was suddenly riven from head to heel with what I regarded as a prefect thunderbolt of humor, and I compressed it into a snappy footnote at the bottom thus: "'We will let this thing pass, just this once, but we wish Mr. J. Gordon Runnels to understand distinctly that we have a character to sustain, and from this time forth when he wants to commune with his friends in h-1, he must select some other medium than the columns of this journal. He was known far beyond the boundaries where English is spoken as the greatest humorist and satirist living. On the heels of this came the first symptoms of the disease which was surely to be fatal and one of whose accompaniments is mental depression. I know I made a mistake by not letting you go personally, he told Berra. : 14227 Obituaries. His films had such consistent mass appeal that reviewers were sometimes condescending to them. He was frequently thrown into jail. I speak of wrongs.. His personality and his humor have been an integral part of American life for so long that it has seemed almost impossible to realize an America without him. : Few men could relate more interesting anecdotes and experiences than Harry Houdini. The body was later taken to the county morgue for the autopsy, which was performed by Dr. Tsunetomi Noguchi, a pathologist. To obtain rights to republish or license a stand-alone photograph, contact Redux Pictures at 212- 253-0399 or research@reduxpictures.com. Her work exploring the idea of female subservience within the church won acclaim. ", It was said that so devoted was his vast following that even among illiterates he could, by calm discussion of Platonic dogma, evoke deep cries of "Amen.". In the ring at Coffeyville, Kan., a Sheriff tied him and then produced a pair of handcuffs with the taunt: "If I put these on you, you'll never get loose.". "You discover sex in them. As she took her seat in the car neither she nor the driver noticed that one of the loose ends fell outside over the side of the car and was caught in the rear wheel of the machine. Death was due to peritonitis, which followed the first operation, that for appendicitis. Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2022, Wonderful book with superior journalism from the New York Times, Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2017. Certainly it was not a credulous audience. They were separated in 1965, and his mother remarried in 1967. . The Yankees and the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, N.J., announced his death. Almost as spontaneous as Mrs. This was the first instance of his cleverly obtaining notoriety by a public or semi-public exhibition outside the theatre. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. There was a problem loading your book clubs. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.'". A doctrine of black supremacy is as evil as a doctrine of white supremacy.". Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2016. , Dimensions His catalog is not available on the streaming service Spotify, and he took extensive legal measures against users of his music on YouTube and elsewhere. Another collection from The New York Times from the 20 th century. As the leading British director of the 30's, he set the standard for international intrigue and espionage with such classic thrillers as "The 39 Steps" and "The Lady Vanishes.". There are apple trees and gray stone walls. Other customers had noted this too. The Davenport brothers were then famous, doing the first spiritualist work ever seen in this country. He was spat upon and mocked. The other has not yet been traced. Before Dr. King had his own church he pursued his studies in the integrated Crozier Theological Seminary, in Chester, Pa. Her great popularity in France was increased by the entire nations sympathy when in 1913 her two young children also perished in an automobile tragedy. "Sam" was apprenticed as a printer at 50-cents a week in the office of The Hannibal Weekly Journal, doing as he afterward said, "a little of everything." In the last twenty years Houdini made many long tours, playing in nearly every important city in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. He invariably alerted viewers to imminent dangers such as a ticking time bomb, withholding the knowledge from imperiled characters, and identified the villains early on, eschewing the "whodunit" as "a sort of intellectual puzzle" that is void of emotion.". Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2020. (As an adult, on a visit to his ancestral home, Berra took in a performance of Tosca at La Scala. During a reception following the address he commented on the strength of his stomach muscles and their ability to withstand hard blows without injury. Please try again. We must not lose faith in our white brothers.". Seven years ago in Los Angeles he made a wager that he could free himself from a six-foot grave into which he was to be buried after being manacled. The availability of an extra 10,000 obituaries was a major factor behind my purchase. Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2022. Clemens humor was essentially clean. As a child his name was Michael Luther King and so was his father's. There was little of the rabblerouser in his oratory. 568, F. & A. M. Tricked Roosevelt on River of Doubt--Had Four "Close-Ups With Death". They died and I have not heard from them. As recounted in Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee, a 2009 biography by Allen Barra, one day in his early teens, young Larry and some friends went to the movies and were watching a travelogue about India when a Hindu yogi appeared on the screen sitting cross-legged. No other player has been a champion so often. In recent years, The New York Times has undertaken a groundbreaking initiative to create obituaries for those whose stories deserve to be told, yet were passed over at the time of their death. In the summer of that year racial rioting exploded in New York and in other Northern cities with large Negro populations. "Through this lane the 'Innocent at Home' loved to wander in his white flannels for homely gossip with the neighbors. With two outs in the ninth inning and two men on base after walks, the Yankees starter, Bill Bevens, gave up a double to Cookie Lavagetto that cleared the bases and won the game. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. The TimesMachine is a browser-based digital replica of all issues from 1851 to 2002 available to Home Delivery and digital subscribers. Although it had been known that he was in a serious condition, no one seemed to expect that his illness would terminate fatally so soon. A member of the old guard of Palestinian leaders, Mr. Qurei was a principal architect of the Oslo Accords, the first peace agreement with Israel. I wrote an elaborately wretched account of the whole matter, and then illustrated it with villainous cuts engraved on the bottoms of wood type with a jackknife- one of them a picture of Higgins wading out into the creek in his shirt, with a lantern, sounding the depth of the water with a walking stick. In 1947, honored at Sportsmans Park in St. Louis, a nervous Berra told the hometown crowd, I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. David O. Selznick lured Mr. Hitchcock to Hollywood, with its incomparable technical facilities, and he stayed, becoming an American citizen. He had concluded he wouldn't. To see our price, add these items to your cart. As high school students they formed a band that would also include Morris Day, later the leader of the Time. Medical aid immediately was summoned, but it was stated that she had been strangled and killed instantly. ADAM ALBRIGHT passed away in New York, New York. he asked. Allied with it was another organization formed under Dr. King's sponsorship the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, often referred to as SNICK. In the last two years Miss Monroe had become the subject of considerable controversy in Hollywood. Buy eBook - $9.99 My library The Obits: The New York Times Annual 2012 William McDonald Workman Publishing Company, Nov 11, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 608 pages 1 Review Reviews aren't. For years he called himself the Handcuff King, a title discarded as he extended and elevated the range of his performances. There he embraced the rhythm and passion of the revivalist and evangelist. In private gatherings, Dr. King lacked that laughing gregariousness that often makes for popularity. The last person to see her alive was her housekeeper, Mrs. Eunice Murray, who had lived with her. I thought once I saw my mother in a vision, but I now believe it was imagination. The funeral services Saturday will be private. 'Do you suppose I am going to speak of those cattle that way? Who is this man?--why, I know him; he is Efram--Efram Alexander.' And although Berra did not win the award in 1950 his teammate Phil Rizzuto did he gave one of the greatest season-long performances by a catcher that year, hitting .322, smacking 28 home runs and driving in 124 runs. "While he was in the midst of his work somebody shot at him through the open window and marred the symmetry of my ear. (He also played on World Series losers in 1955, 57, 60 and 63.). Berra was the fourth of five children. In his room at the hotel he was suddenly taken with a terrible gripping at the heart. Even in Bermuda, however, Mr. Clemens found himself unable to write and finally relied on Mr. Allen's fifteen-year old daughter, Helen, to write the few letters he cared to send. Controversy, in 1981, had Prince taunting, Am I black or white?/Am I straight or gay? His audience was broadening; the Rolling Stones chose him as an opening act for part of their tour that year. Films made by the portly, cherubic director invariably progressed from deceptively commonplace trifles of life to shattering revelations, and with elegant style and structure, he pervaded mundane events and scenes with a haunting mood of mounting anxiety. Their daughter, Patricia, acted in a number of his movies and television thrillers. Princes music had an immediate and lasting influence: among songwriters concocting come-ons, among producers working on dance grooves, among studio experimenters and stage performers. Twain did not make fun of Tom Sawyer painting the back yard fence. At this point Dr. King became one of the major intermediaries in restoring order. The car in which they had been left seated started, driverless, down a hill and plunged over a bridge into the Seine River. They were soon married andmnearly 50 years later Mrs. Butler remarked: Frank really reared me. "I have no criticism to make of them.". He became a pilot and stuck to it until the outbreak of the civil war, earning $250 a month, but chief of all he got here his material for "Life on the Mississippi.". BlackDogAndLeventhal.com The New York Times Book of the Dead features more than 300 obituaries in the bookall hand-selected by veteran Times obituary editor William McDonaldincluding tributes to Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James, David Bowie, and Harper Lee, PLUS exclusive online access to thousands more. Last week, when he led a protest march through downtown Memphis, Tenn., in support of the city's striking sanitation workers, a group of Negro youths suddenly began breaking store windows and looting, and one Negro was shot to death. New York Times Obituaries Index 1969-1978 Published by Microfilming Corporation of America, 1980 ISBN 10: 0667005986 ISBN 13: 9780667005983 Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A. Filming on the picture has not resumed. The body will leave Detroit for New York in a special car Monday evening, arrive in New York Tuesday morning about 9 o'clock. I regarded him as our foremost representative in literature at the present day. Mr. Clemens awoke at about 4 o'clock this morning after a few hours of the first natural sleep he has had for several days, and the nurses could see by the brightness of his eyes that his vitality had been considerably restored. After an extended trip to Europe he published in 1902 "A Double-barreled Detective Story," and in recent years, besides writing frequently for magazines, particularly the Harper publications, the Harper Brothers having been his publishers for the last decade or more, he had been engaged with Albert Bigelow Paine, his literary assistant, in writing his autobiography. It is certain to be recalled that Mark Twain was for more than fifty years an inveterate smoker, and the first conjecture of the layman would be that he had weakened his heart by overindulgence in tobacco. It was in these books that he summarized, in detail, his beliefs as well as his career. At first he attributed it to something he had eaten but as it increased he called in the company's nurse, who in turn arranged by wire to have a physician meet the magician in Detroit. He also built his studio complex, Paisley Park, in the mid-1980s for a reported $10 million, and in 1989 his Batman soundtrack album sold two million copies. Regarded as one of the shrewdest businessmen in Hollywood, he became a multimillionaire. He gave this description of his "chief": "When I went on duty I found the chief editor sitting tilted back in a three-legged chair with his feet on a pine table. Miss Monroe's physician had prescribed sleeping pills for her for three days. He was a success from the start. The library is to be a memorial to Jean Clemens, and will be built on a site about half a mile from Stormfield at Cross Roads. His boots were small and neatly blacked. He served only one term, but he went on to make his mark as a champion of environmental causes, gay rights and election reform. Miss Monroe left no notes, according to the police. He played outfield and catcher and hit .314 with 15 home runs and 59 R.B.I. He was 87 years old. It is certain that when scarcely more than a baby he showed skill as an acrobat and contortionist, and both these talents helped his start in the show business and his later development as an "escape king.". During the 1980s, nearly all were million-sellers that reached the Top 10. He was personally highly esteemed and much beloved; a man of letters with a very genuine gift of humor and of serious thought as well. That summer, Berra was inducted into the Hall of Fame. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.". He was in his 75th year. And in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.". Some communities, like this one, had to bear the cross. His death is a National loss, but we have the consolation that he and his genius belonged to and were of us. If you are a lover of history and writing then this book is a must have.