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...committed suicide by taking rat poison. For exercise, his cellmates' chief amusement was to strip to the waist and beat one another black & blue. Young prisoners staged "aspirin" parties to get "high" by grinding up aspirin and tobacco which they rolled into cigarettes. Not satisfied, they took a fling with dope, buying it through a "connection," a trusty who worked as a cleaning man in the courthouse. Kellerman bought one of the tiny capsules filled with white powder, smuggled it out to Newsday's Managing Editor Alan Hathaway. Next time Hathaway visited Kellerman, he whispered...
...people are not even morbidly interested in his private affairs, and it is an unseemly act ... Certainly, this is not a time to seek to divert attention to unimportant side shows like the petty personal fling at Nixon, or the quibble over Stevenson's use of private contributions. Must this buffoonery be further prolonged...
What did Mr. Truman have in mind? asked Kohen, who once sold Philatelist Franklin Roosevelt choice items for his stamp collection. Harry Truman answered as many another husband might in a rare fling at picture buying; he had no very strong views about painters or styles. What he did know was that he wanted something about two feet high and three feet wide. Said the President: "I know exactly the place where I want to hang...
...million-acre ranches. Son Jordan is married to a Mexican girl, aims to become a doctor and work among the poor. In short, says Author Ferber, there's hope for Texas yet, once this generation's crop of oil, cotton and cattle millionaires have had their vulgar fling...
...mating season now, said Henry S. Dybas, assistant curator at Chicago's Natural History Museum. The crickets are enjoying a "middleaged fling." Chlordane sprayed on floors, foundations and walls every seven days until the first frost might bring them under control. But until colder weather, many Chicagoans will continue to share their homes with crickets. And, in lieu of their preferred diet of grass and grain, the crickets will continue to chew on the lace curtains and starched clothing of their helpless hosts...