Word: gorham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Constance Hughes--24 Gorham St., public health nurse and social worker
...will simply be read more than others and critics should spend their time writing about the individual poems and poets they would like to see being read more, and not waste their time over prizes. The question then is, should the Cantos be read? During the Bollingen controversy Robert Gorham Davis wrote that the Cantos are "a test case for a whole set of values, and stand self-condemned." But he also added an important point to the debate, that the Cantos "are important documents; they should be available, they should be read...
...stairs leading out of the cell block, Gorham encountered Deputy U.S. Marshal Joseph Sinkavitch. Shoving Gorham aside, Sinkavitch rushed back through the cell block's steel door and quickly shut it behind him, sealing in Wilkerson, Gorham, eight hostages and 15 other inmates, none of whom had taken part in the seizure. Among the hostages were four deputy marshals, a Justice Department auditor and his secretary, and two local attorneys (one of whom, John J. Hurley, had previously served as Wilkerson's lawyer). At first, the two convicts vowed that they would not release the hostages until they...
Compared to the confused negotiations that have taken place in other prisoner-hostage situations, the discussions between Gorham and Wilkerson and federal authorities were surprisingly calm and cool. It helped matters considerably that the cell block telephone was in good working order. As the ordeal continued, both captors and hostages talked freely to newsmen, relatives and negotiators. The hostages' fears were eased somewhat by this link with the outside world. At one point Gorham's mother Velma and sister Ena showed up outside the courthouse, and while there they talked to Gorham by telephone...
...escape. In a carefully devised scheme that had been prearranged by telephone with authorities outside, the lone woman hostage, Debra Collins, told the two men that she needed a sanitary napkin. Officials sent it in to her with a key to the cell block elevator wrapped inside. While Gorham slept and Wilkerson talked on the telephone, the seven captives opened the elevator with the smuggled key, quickly got inside, and escaped on the building's second floor. Their game up, the two men surrendered hours later, and made a deal to be transferred to the federal prison of their...