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...with cork buoys and tied them securely around their father. A moment later a huge wave broke over them. On shore, the praying watchers-gave a cry, and the village priest made a sign of the Cross. Neither the Flower nor her three crewmen were seen again, but soon afterward a coast-guard cutter, steaming belatedly from Santander, spied a white head bobbing in the water. It was Candido, battered but still alive...
...Memorial Park cemetery, near Falls Church, Va. across the Potomac from Washington. Suddenly, as the rabbi bowed his head in prayer, a raucous blast of hillbilly music disrupted the burial ceremony. As the casket was lowered into the earth, it was accompanied by another chorus of mooing mountain music. Afterward, when 20 shocked and weeping mourners protested, Robert F. Marlowe, proprietor of National Memorial Park, was sorry but not surprised. The hillbilly music was just another episode in a running battle between Frank Curtin, a Department of Defense mechanic, and the owners of the cemetery...
...port, young Christopher managed to steal a look out of the fetid hold. The ship was in a British harbor, but no Britons were permitted aboard to see the human cargo she was carrying. In the face of the Communist guards, the Greek prisoners kept quiet. Soon afterward the freighter tied up at a Polish port, and the human cattle were transferred from its hold to sealed railway boxcars. Dragged, pushed and prodded from town to town over many months, the Moschou family were finally settled in a Hungarian village whose name had been changed from "Peace" to "Beloyannis...
Before his emasculation, George Jorgensen called himself a casualty of the "no man's land of sex." Afterward, he renamed himself Christine and took on women's clothes and ways. Last week in Copenhagen, the site of Christine's transformation, another fugitive U.S. male made his way into the women's lines. His name: Charles McLeod, 28, henceforth to be known as Charlotte...
...most famous studies are those by Keats's great friend, Artist Joseph Severn. Severn nursed Keats through his last illness. His faithfulness to the dying poet, in fact, made him a big name in the art world, and his paintings sold like hot cakes for 20 years afterward...