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Mildred slept on a cot in the same room with her sister and brother-in-law. "Every other night, when his wife was asleep, he would come to my bed and try to get in beside me. . . . When he got in one side of the bed, I jumped out the other. He would run after me, trying to rape me." Attorney Norman Becker asked why she did not scream. "I didn't want to wake my sister." Attorney Robert Cantwell Jr. asked why she did not leave the Feiler household. "They needed somebody to take care of their daughter...
...Little Foxes}, many another talented Negro. Two months ago 600 Clevelanders, big & small, gathered to celebrate Karamu House's 25th anniversary. Said Play wright Paul Green: "The Jelliffes are the kind of dreamers who have made America great." To play a joke on teacher by falling asleep in class, six Minneapolis eleven-year-olds took "sleeping tablets," niched from a medicine cabinet. Clark Synnes lost his nerve, began to pace the floor. Teacher: "Why are you so nervous?" Clark: "You'd be nervous too if you had just taken poison." Doctors administered emetics, found they had taken...
Well represented in the show were early U. S. portraitists, 19th-Century genre painters, the top-notch trio of Homer, Ryder and Eakins. There were plenty of surprising items: a huge, romantic, melodramatic scene by Copley, Watson and the Shark; a nude, Ariadne Asleep in the Island of Naxos, painted in a day when nudes were taboo, by Gilbert Stuart's pupil Vanderlyn; a pioneer surrealist work, Deluge, by Washington Allston, with limp white corpses, fantastic serpents, a four-fanged she-wolf; Raphael Peale's After the Bath, in which the ultra-realistic painting of pins...
...musicians to see it. Putting politics before mythology, he crowed: "We are going to elect Willkie the conductor of 130,000,000 people for four years. ... He is playing the music from Wagner's opera Siegfried, in which Siegfried comes to awaken Brünnehilde, who has been asleep for eight years...
...Margaret Elizabeth Day of Wycombe Abbey School, told a racking account of the disaster: "I was in my cabin when I heard an explosion. As I seized my coat and life belt, water was entering the cabin. I dashed to the children's quarters and found them still asleep. . . .An officer shouted to the children to hurry on deck, and we started, with the children behaving magnificently. . . .We clambered into a lifeboat but it had shipped much water and its rudder was gone. . . .The children were singing Roll Out the Barrel. As they came to the part that goes...