ON THE RIGHT
A single radio broadcast brings the news of two suicides and a divorce, and reminds us that when all is said and done, it is the individual around whom the world spins. That all our talk of empires rising and falling, of worlds torn in two, of glacial currents and galactic swoops, can seem trivial when contrasted with the fall of a titan. The radio broadcaster relegated to the end the humdrum news of atom bomb pacts, civil rights convulsions, the earthquakes of Yugoslavia, the usual tremors in the chancelleries. His mind and the listeners’ were on the divorce of Henry Ford, the suicide of Stephen Ward, and the disintegration and death of Philip Graham.
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