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Like the plays, the poems are based squarely on his wanderings, his observations, his intense conviction that human love is forever battering itself to pieces on the jagged reefs of brutality, ignorance and misunderstanding. Some of them are as personal as a confession; Cortege could easily be an outline for...
As an example of how Stalin's interrogators faked the evidence in the great conspiracy trials of 1937, Khrushchev recited the case of Party Member Rosenblum: "When Rosenblum was arrested, he was subjected to terrible torture during which he was ordered to confess false information concerning himself and other...
The paper also won unusual tribute from a murderer. The day after his arrest in 1935 for killing two women, Dr. Buck Ruxton scribbled a note that he gave to a friend with strict orders to pass it to News of the World only after his death. Ruxton went to...
Unhallowed Ground. As Harding prepared for the first political execution in Britain's 78-year island rule, 400,000 Cypriots mounted a death watch. Behind shuttered doors Nicosia waited as Father Antonios, head priest of Archbishop Makarios' palace chapel, went to give the doomed pair the Holy Sacraments...
"Who is it?" asked Edwin Roy Hamlett, 34, an auto salesman. "We're police officers," shouted Deputy Parks, and the door opened. "All right," rasped Parks, "where's it hidden?" Hamlett protested that he did not know what they were talking about. Reporter Cook, a high-school halfback...