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...demonstrators, all of whom belong to either the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) or the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), said reporting by The Globe and The Boston Herald American of the burning death of Evelyn Wagler Tuesday night and the stabbling death of Louis Barba on Thursday "made it look like blacks were on the rampage" and contributed to the spread of anti-black hysteria throughout the city...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: 14 Arrested at Boston Globe Office | 10/9/1973 | See Source »

Initial press reports blamed Barba's death at Columbia Point, a predominantly black housing project in Dorchester, on black youths seen throwing rocks at Barba on Thursday. Autopsy results, however, showed that the cause of death was stabbing, and police later arrested two suspects for murder and robbery...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: 14 Arrested at Boston Globe Office | 10/9/1973 | See Source »

...said that Globe reporters spent all day and night Thursday attempting to confirm a police report that Barba's death was caused by stones thrown by a crowd of black youths. Friday's first edition relied on the police report and attributed the death to the black youths...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: 14 Arrested at Boston Globe Office | 10/9/1973 | See Source »

...tell or show me what Señor Castro would look like without his barba and/or his rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...hundreds of naval officers, the Baltimore brawler with the boxer's rolling shuffle came to epitomize the ideals of the Naval Academy. But though Spike belonged to the Navy, he also found time to coach four U.S. Olympic teams. After Webb training, Olympians Frankie Genaro and Fidel La Barba went on to take turns holding the world flyweight championship. At Annapolis, meanwhile, Spike turned out such salty scrappers as Rear Admiral William V. ("Mickey") O'Regan and Submariner Captain Wreford ("Moon") Chapple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baltimore Brawler | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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