Pulitzer winner Robert Lowell dies at 60 in Manhattan
Pulitzer prize winning poet Robert Lowell Jr died at age 60 from an apparent heart attack while returning from JFK airport to Manhattan. He had planned a brief stay before resuming lectures at Harvard and had just published Day by Day earlier this year.
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Associated Press
NEW York
Robert Trail Spence Lowell Jr
Manhattan
John F. Kennedy International
Lowell
Ireland
Caroline Blackwell
Boston
Harvard University
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Elizabeth Hardwick
Sheed and Ward
Robert Lowell
Preston Smith launches bid for Texas governor nomination
Preston Smith, former Texas governor, announces candidacy for the Democratic nomination. He criticizes the current caretaker administration, calling for renewed leadership to address energy, education, taxes, and governance, and pledges to bring state government back to the people.
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Preston Smith
Austin
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Texas
Smith
State Textbook Committee wraps up with minor flaps
A Texas State Textbook Committee finished work with a back to basics tilt, approving four of five high school free enterprise texts and endorsing all five biology texts. Disputes centered on a controversial Choices and Decisions economics text and a nude photo in a biology book, while auto-adoption of a Human Sexuality topic drew opposition.
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Austin
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Corpus Christi
Allyn & Bacon
National Organization of Women
Yvonne Lozano
el Paso
American Book Co
Klinefelter
Klaus Driessen
Arlington
Driessen
Texas Education Agency
Donna Townsend
TEA
Stokowski Dies at 95 in Hampshire Sleep
Leo Pold Stokowski, famed conductor of 70 years and 7,000 concerts, died at 95 after a virus infection and heart attack. He slept at Nether Wallop, Hampshire, home to a long-term contract to work until 100. Naturalized American, born in London to a Polish carpenter and Irish mother, he led major orchestras and collaborated with Disney on Fantasia.
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CBS Records
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Hampshire
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Los Angeles
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Houston
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