Apr. 14, 1998 The Sorrow of Love Today's Reading: "The Sorrow of
Love" by William Butler Yeats. It's the anniversary of the
evening in 1912 when the TITANIC struck an iceberg in the north
Atlantic during its maiden voyage and began sinking. It's the
birthday of British actor and director John Geilgud, born in
London in 1904. He made his debut at the Old Vic when he was
seventeen years old. Electrical engineer Harold Black, whose
research on reducing amplifier distortion made possible long-
distance telephone service, was born on this day in Leominster,
Massachusetts, 1898. It was on the evening of this day in 1865
that President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at
Ford's Theater in Washington. He was the first U.S. president to
be assassinated. It was on this day in 1818 that Noah Webster
published his AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. It
contained 70,000 words and had taken 35 years to compile. Be
well, do good work, and keep in touch.®