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...finding it hard to play it cool. "He's like a caged animal," said a prison official. "He's very nervous -more nervous about someone trying to stop the execution than the date coming closer." For a time, a family reunion with his two brothers and an aunt and uncle put Gilmore in a better mood, though he was disappointed that his mother, Bessie Gilmore, was ill and could not make the trip. "The family should be together on an occasion like this," said his uncle, Vern Damico...
Back in the early 1930s my aunt, who lived in Manchester, Conn., introduced us to a new game called Bottle Tops, so called because it was played with the pasteboard tops then used on glass milk bottles. They were plain on one side and had the name of the dairy printed on the other. The playing board was a piece of manila paper marked off in 64 squares like a checkerboard. We called it the depression game...
...proper lines as the horror-story heroine; just as Frank's sonic transducer warps time, the visitors' old values distort: "Thrill me, chill me, fulfill me/Creature of the night" Janet sings when the traditional script would demand her to call "Stop!" Listen to this record with your aged aunt who bemoans the fact that "You young people don't appreciate musicals any more." Maybe she'll sing along with "Time Warp": "It's so dreamy, of fantasy free me..." Whatever. More lyrics...
...dingy foyer of the Utah State Prison, Gilmore's aunt, Ida Damico, and her daughter, Brenda Nicol, maintain a sort of vigil. They say, though, that if they had been on Gilmore's jury, they would have voted to convict...
...family has already discussed the division of Gilmore's worldly possessions, including parts of his body. One of Brenda's children hopes to get Gilmore's pituitary gland. "I wish I could get his brain, "Aunt Ida says with a smile. "I always wanted to go to college...