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...Hate You! I Hate You!" Sir: This week even the city newsstand was embarrassed. The entire stack of Jan. 24 TIME was upside down. HELEN BOOTH Lafayette...
...succeed the late Robert Frost; Playwright-Producer Sir Tyrone Guthrie, 63, installed in the honorary post of chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, succeeding Britain's late World War II strategist, Lord Alanbrooke; Poet and Critic Allen Tate, 64, awarded the $5,000 Chancie and William Booth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets by a board of such peers as W. H. Auden and Randall Jarrell; Architect Le Corbusier (born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), 76, promoted to grand officier, next to highest rank of France's Legion of Honor...
...game yesterday, leading the rout against Cornell was number six man John Thorndike, who walloped Ron Booth, 15-7, 15-3, 15-8. John Vinton, number five, lost only one more point than Thorndike, crushing Craig Sommers...
Lincoln died nine hours later. Booth lived like a dog while the search for him spread out across the country. Occasionally he saw a newspaper, only to read with bafflement and bitter disappointment that his crime had been condemned throughout the South. On April 26 he was cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Va. Troops set fire to the barn to force him out and, as he was silhouetted in the flames, saw him felled by a single bullet. "Tell Mother I died for my country," he whispered as he was dragged from the fire...
...Glory, glory, glory," as the door was sprung from beneath his feet. Czolgosz was electrocuted only 46 days after McKinley died, and a carboy of sulphuric acid was poured into his coffin afterward, by way of post-mortem punishment. Sergeant Boston Corbett, the soldier who claimed he had killed Booth, in defiance of orders that he be taken alive, explained that he had acted on God's authority. "Providence directed me," he said...