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Brought in to testify for the defense, Dr. Lewis Glazer of Chelsea Soldier's Home agreed that Delaney had indeed been a sick man. Glazer added that he had never sent Delaney a bill, and Delaney agreed that he had not paid for Glazer's services...
...Covent Garden bawdyhouse, of a father unknown and a mother notorious as "old Madam Gwyn," a brandy-soak "that in one day could twenty quarts consume, / And bravely vaunt she durst it twice presume." (One day she durst, and the next she was fished out of a Chelsea brook; Nelly, rich and famous by then, gave her one of the flashiest funerals of the Restoration...
Rumpled Beds. For his teacher's fashionable Chelsea haunts, young Sickert substituted a series of battered studio digs in north and central London. There he sketched and painted scenes of British low life with a gusto and an eye for beauty in squalor that rivaled Degas and Lautrec. Like Lautrec, he doted on the dramatic lighting and rowdy shenanigans of turn-of-the-century music halls. He also liked to paint outdoors...
...night a fortnight ago, Allen Kaplan of Chelsea, Mass. piled into a car with a group of his chums at Northwestern State College in Natchitoches, La. and headed for Grand Ecore Bluff, a remote lovers' lane along the high banks of the Red River. Their supposed purpose: to meet a "hot date" the upperclassmen had fixed up for 18-year-old Freshman Kaplan. They parked the car. Suddenly, as the upperclassmen had planned, another student, impersonating an outraged husband, jumped from behind some bushes and fired a shotgun. The group scattered on the run. The upperclassmen made their...
...Chelsea, Mass, court, a lawyer argued that his bookmaker client was helping to save the U.S. from Communism by contributing "to the equalization of the democratic way of life by letting poor people place small bets...