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...skillfully wields a lethal .44-cal. Bulldog revolver, struck for the eighth time last week, slaying Stacy Moskowitz, 20, and blinding Robert Violante, also 20, as the two sat in a parked car at 2:35 a.m. and watched a full moon illuminate Brooklyn's Gravesend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Man Hunt For Son of Sam Goes On | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...Nikita Khrushchev packed his extra truthbrush, someone else beat him to the U.S.'s broad, well-woofed welcome mat. In New York Harbor's Gravesend Bay, the new Holland-America liner Rotterdam met the Dutch destroyer Gelderland, transferred a special passenger: plumply pretty Princess Beatrix, 21, heiress presumptive to the throne of The Netherlands. Under cloudbursts of ticker tape, she was driven up lower Broadway, incidentally passing over the site where marooned Dutch sailors spent the winter of 1613 as the first white inhabitants of Manhattan. In the U.S. for ten days, the princess would lunch with President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Through the centuries, the church where Pocahontas was buried, St. George's at Gravesend, fell into disrepair; Gravesend itself, a Thames dock area, became a rundown parish. But in 1947, a new vicar, the Rev. Richard Daunton-Fear, arrived and began an energetic campaign to restore the parish churches. Last week, after four years of fundraising, St. George's Church, newly named a "Chapel of Unity," was rededicated. It is now a spruce Georgian structure with arched windows and a fine Jacobean altar rail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pocahontas' Chapel | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...London, a group of prominent clergy and laymen proposed that St. George's Church in Gravesend, where Pocahontas, wife of John Rolfe and savior of Captain John Smith, has been buried since 1617, be dedicated as a shrine to Christian unity. Said the London Times: "One who tried to reconcile her own primitive American people with the invading white men is perhaps no bad patroness for a church dedicated ... to the idea of unity-unity both of the American and British nations and of the Christian churches. It should be a matter of pride to see that the appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Social Graces | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...irate Englishman wrote to the London Times protesting a rumor of the possible destruction of St. George's Church in Gravesend, where Pocahontas, savior of Captain John Smith and wife of John Rolfe, has been buried for more than 330 years: "When we are . . . doing our utmost to attract American visitors it seems singularly shortsighted to destroy a building which . . . [could] draw them to Gravesend in large numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Personal Approach | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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