The lives of the world's greatest contributors to arts, politics, sports, and letters are celebrated with wit, humor, and reverence by their equally famous friends,<br>relatives, and peers.<br><br> Here are fifty eulogies, fond remembrances of the twentieth century's best and brightest:<br><br>World Pioneers: Martin Luther King Jr. honored by Robert Kennedy, Mahatma Gandhi by Jawaharlal Nehru<br><br>Movie Stars: Joan Crawford remembered by director George Cukor, Orson Welles by Charlton Heston<br><br>Media Titans: Katharine Graham celebrated by Ben Bradlee, Edward R.Murrow by Charles Kuralt<br><br>Entertainers: John Belushi by Dan Aykroyd, Bob Hope by Larry Gelbart<br><br>Composers and Singers: Jerry Garcia by Robert Hunter, Leonard Bernstein by Ned Rorem<br><br>Athletes: Mickey Mantle by Bob Costas, Arthur Ashe by Douglas Wilder<br><br>In these moving and personal tributes, we see the true personalities of these fifty remarkable people, shadings of character usually hidden from the spotlight.