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...Deacons of Kirkland stole a jump on the rest of the College in Yale game festivities as they shouted and cheered their way through a "highly informal" rally in and around the House courtyard last night...
...eleven men for whom this night held no dawn ate a last supper of potato salad, sausage, cold cuts, black bread and tea. At 9 p.m., the prison lights were dimmed. At 10:45, U.S. Army Security officer Colonel Burton C. Andrus walked across the prison courtyard to set the night's lethal machinery in motion. The whole prison was permeated by the thought of impending death. (The Courthouse movie announced the next day's attraction: Deadline for Murder...
...heavy crosspiece with a hook for the rope in the middle. An inconspicuous lever served to open the traps. The space beneath the traps was hidden by curtains. 1:11 a.m. Two white-helmeted guards led Joachim von Ribbentrop from his cell down the corridor and across the courtyard. He walked as in a trance, his eyes half closed. The wind ruffled his sparse grey hair. Overhead, the same wind whipped clouds into bizarre patterns...
...wife, who lives in a hotel some 15 minutes distant, visits him, bringing his washing and mending. Pétain carefully folds his own shirts and stores them away in a closet. The rest of the time he spends studying English, reading or strolling, carefully guarded, in the courtyard. Occasionally he is permitted a visit from his attorney, Jacques Isorni...
...Something with red in it, he supposed. Only it wasn't red at all; it was crimson. He felt like jumping up and clicking his feet together three times in the air, as he'd seen somebody do in the movies not long ago. Vag walked rapidly through the courtyard and ran up the two flights of stairs...