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Hortense Ford arrived at a Ventura (Calif.) reform school when she was 19; her illegitimate daughter Barbara made it when she was 14. After two years in the reformatory, Barbara married, became a "sea gull," i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct, vagrancy; she had four husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified...
...above-average I.Q. of 114, began listening' to classical music, read Socrates and was quoted: "I've always been a pushover for poetry-Oscar Wilde. Walt Whitman and some of Robert Bridges. Verse seems to say something to me that nothing else can." When the "sea gull" was arrested, she had a mask of caked make-up and a bottle-blond hairdo, but as she was moved to the death house at San Quentin 26 months later, she had neat brown hair, a scrubbed face, wore a tasteful beige suit and looked like a respectable suburban housewife...
...Hasty Pudding Club finally moved over from Hollis. Stoughton's specter quickened with this great honor and in 1852 sent forth Horatio Alger to conquer the world. Soon Phillips Brooks was inspired to inscribe his initials on a fireplace. When another student painted an owl, a frog, a gull, and a turtle on the doors of room 25, the college carpenter threatened to remove the exhibit and fine the artist, but President Sparks intervened, proving himself a patron of the arts. The Stoughton renaissance culminated in a final burst of glory on the evening of December 15, 1870, when...
...fast movement for the next hour and a half had a breathless here-we-go-again quality. It would have been just another dead-eye Fred taking pleasure in his fingerwork. except that Gulda's pianissimo was sweet as a barrel of honey, his legato glided like a gull, and his perfect shading gave each movement a convincing contour...
...also have a parakeet," added Joan, "named Crazy Crawford." But parakeets (like Peter Lorre's pet sea gull that recently suffered a broken wing) have their own special emotional problems...