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...when it was discovered that a baby favoring the Lindbergh child had arrived on a nearby farm. A Lockheed low-wing monoplane alighted at Newark Airport and its two passengers electrified spectators with a package containing "something alive." The plane, it developed, belonged to Asa Candler ("Coca-Cola") of Atlanta, Ga. "Something alive" was a pair of small monkeys which Mr. Candler was sending to friends in New Hampshire...
Diary is the brainchild of Atlanta-based playwright Tyler Perry; the movie is adapted from his play of the same name. Perry’s work is immensely popular; Newsweek estimates that his stage productions have grossed over $70 million, but almost exclusively in the black community...
CAPTURED. BRIAN NICHOLS, 33, rape defendant accused of killing the judge presiding over his trial; by police, after a massive, 26-hour manhunt; in Atlanta. Nichols allegedly wrestled a gun from a sheriff's deputy at the Fulton County Courthouse and fatally shot Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes, a stenographer and another deputy. Nichols then stole a series of cars--allegedly killing an off-duty federal customs agent in the process--before a woman tipped off police that he had been holding her hostage in her apartment...
Meanwhile, Atlanta attorney Patrick J. Flinn, who co-authored a 1997 law journal article about a controversial cryptography patent, said Friday he was “flattered” to learn that Harvard had copied sentences straight from his article...
Overall, the players were pleased with the Crimson’s performance, which was aided by two prior days of practice in Atlanta...