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With pick and shovel, the boy from Gourtloughera helped dig the city's last big subway tunnel. When he worked in a subway change booth-an 84-hour week for a $27.72 pay envelope-the need for a union was obvious. With six others, he started the T.W.U. in 1934 and became its first president. "We were dealing with a lot of young Irishmen who came over from secret organizations," he said. "They liked the secrecy and the intrigue. I liked it too. It never left...
Died. Susannah Robinson Tarkington, 95, widow of Hoosier Novelist Booth Tarkington (The Magnificent Ambersons), whom she married in 1912 and nursed through years of near blindness until his death in 1946; of arteriosclerosis; in Indianapolis...
...like, for they offer both the pertinent and the bogus. They give the conflicting eyewitness accounts of the President's murder and the wild rumors that swept Washington, as well as a factual narrative of the events before and after his death. There are not only pictures of Booth's derringer, the chair Lincoln sat in, the clothes he wore; there are also spurious photographs of Lincoln in death and of mawkish funeral souvenirs...
...picture shows the bedroom where Lincoln died, before it had been put in order. There is a shot of the Lincoln family dog, a yellow mongrel named Fido. The most startling picture of all (see below) proves that John Wilkes Booth and five of his fellow conspirators were present at Lincoln's second inauguration. Booth, standing on a balcony behind the speaker's stand, could easily have shot Lincoln as he spoke...
Kienholz, 38, has meticulously created the eatery on Santa Monica Boulevard. In his quest for verisimilitude, he even bought a new phone booth to replace the Beanery's so that he could have the real thing for his stage-set. The jukebox, too, is real, though the choice of records turns out to be art world in-puns: Up a Larry Rivers; It's Delightful, It's Delovely, It's de Kooning...