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Eagle Archives, Feb. 24, 1984: Author William L. Shirer spent his 80th birthday banging away at a typewriter, as he has done for most of this century.

Following her death at age 103, Lafrenz leaves a legacy that shows the lasting power of truth and nonviolence in the face of monstrous evil.

Born: May 1, 1935;

Dramatist who charged the BBC with leftwing bias when it postponed his work The Falklands Play

Other politically charged subjects he tackled were Churchill’s wartime relations with his military commanders and the Suez crisis