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...hotel next door to Boston's North Station. That evening he went out to dinner at the Beacon Hill home of his old friend, Professor Kenneth B. Murdock. Though their talk was mostly of books and poetry, Matthie seemed unusually depressed. About 11:30 he said goodbye. Shortly afterward he got to his room in the downtown hotel, spread out a note to whom it might concern. "I have taken this room in order to do what I have to do," it said. "How much the state of the world has to do with my state of mind...
...later, Andy followed his wife home. He was greeted by the blast of a .45, died instantly with a bullet through his heart. When (as she later testified) Yvette "heard his blood" oozing from his chest, she ran to the home of a neighbor, screaming "I shot him!" Soon afterward an Air Force MP found Andy's body in the Madsen living room close by a note written by Yvette: "I know my husband will beat me up. My only defense is to shoot him, the heel, the rat, the low creature...
...They tricked me," exploded Seretse shortly afterward to reporters in his tiny flat off Haymarket. "They invited me to come to England, and now they say that I am to be excluded from my home. I thought these things were only supposed to happen in Russia. I said it was a dirty trick. They told me they didn't want me to say anything at all to the press until next week, but now I feel I have been doublecrossed...
...Afterward, Skater Kiraly made more news of his own. As many another Iron Curtain athlete has done since World War II, Bachelor Kiraly made up his mind to choose freedom, announced that he had British permission to stay in England...
Calhoun's undergraduate cockiness was not unwarranted; seven years after leaving Yale he was in Congress. In 1811 he became Henry Clay's lieutenant in the raucous young "War Hawk" faction which whooped for war against Britain. Afterward, when little "Jemmy" Monroe became President, he offered Calhoun the job of Secretary of War. The ambitious Calhoun grabbed it and did a bangup job. He reformed the Army diet, adding vegetables to the monotonous bread and salt pork, and began projects to extend the Union through exploratory expeditions and the building of a system of national highways...