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...Defense Secretary, who threw himself from a 16th-story hospital window in May of 1949, was suffering from a mental breakdown and decided that life was unendurable with his mind impaired. Novelist Virginia Woolf also killed herself (in April 1941) because she thought she was going mad. Poet Hart Crane was seriously deranged when he killed himself in April 1932, as was Ernest Hemingway when he blew his brains out with his favorite shotgun. Hemingway's suicide raises the problem of whether the tendency can be inherited (his father shot himself when the author was 29, and his sister...
...week ago Tuesday night, while Republican Governor John A. Volpe was holding a reception in the Louis XIV Ballroom, across the hallway in the Empress Room was Lt. Gov, Elliot L. Richardson '41 and his people, and down the hallway was the Democratic State Treasurer Robert Q. Crane. Two friends of Crane's, on the way to his reception in the Princess Room, stopped by Volpe's celebration. They watched the TV cameras, listend to the band play "Louis, Louis," gulped down a glass of punch, and left. On the way out, one turned to the other and said, "There...
...Irish part of it, was anxious to repudiate past performances by Democrats. The bloc therefore passed over any Democrat who had a connection with old-fashioned politics and voted for the Republican. He cited the re-election of of Secretary of State Kevin H. White, Treasurer Robert Q. Crane, and Auditor Thaddeus Buczko, all Democrats and all men who have no connection with the Democratic party of the 1940's and 1950's. Their re-election, he says, demonstrates that the subruban vote will readily turn to a respectable or new-breed Democrat...
Ever since he drove across the border into Mexico, Dykes Simmons, 38, has had good reason to reflect upon the problems of American suspects abroad. For seven years, while he has sweated out a death sentence in his sun-baked prison cell in Monterrey, the Fort Worth crane operator, now a convicted murderer, has pondered the harsh fact that whatever Mexican law says, an American defendant may well have to prove his innocence in the face of assumed guilt. In a U.S. court, a prosecutor would have had to prove Simmons' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt-a difficult...
...recalled a Volpe announcement in 1961 that selection of a route for the highway was imminent. And Crane supported Congressman Thomas P. O'Neill's (D-Mass.) Friday statement that the Belt would be delayed for at least two years...