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Grape Wine portrays Wyeth's friend and handyman Willard Snowden. Since 1964, he has painted the wine-loving Negro drifter often in wistful poses suggestive of eternal human patience. Says Wyeth: "He gave me a chance to paint something timeless, ageless, endless. He's all of the Brandywine Valley, its dankness and brooding power...
...Will Bring Evil." The supreme irony of it all is that Verwoerd's assassin apparently thought so too. Dimitrio Tsafendas had been a drifter who hated the world. He speaks eight languages, has traveled all over the world as a merchant seaman-and has been confined in mental hospitals in both the U.S. and Portugal. He is also a religious fanatic who has dabbled in Buddhism, read the Bible, and often quotes his favorite passage from II Kings: "Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof...
Within 48 hours of the slayings, a na tionwide manhunt was launched for a blue-eyed ex-convict charged by Chicago authorities with murder and by Federal agents with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He was identified as Richard B. Speck, 25, of Dallas, a drifter who sports a tattooed slogan on his upper left arm: "Born to raise hell...
...probable reasons for the Attorney General's sweeping statement is Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., an Alabamian who has lived his 34 years in Birmingham. Rowe is a stocky, reddish-haired man remembered by acquaintances as a job-to-job drifter, working at various times in a dairy, in a novelty store, behind a bar, as an ambulance driver, and in a meat-packing plant, where he froze several toes. To Birmingham cops, he was a sometime squealer in bootleg cases. And to his fellow Ku Klux Klansmen, he was a colleague who liked to talk-without ever getting very...
With a plunking background and a beat that makes it sound somehow like a lilting dirge, that bit of drifter's lingo is the hottest item on the current top pop charts. Out less than two months, King of the Road passed the three-quarters of a million sales mark last week, is fourth and soaring on this week's Billboard listing. The lyrics, music and vocal are all by a personable young man named Roger Miller, 29. He is no new Beatle, but he has got what they call something. Raised in Oklahoma on a farm...