Word: hallway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Lurleen Burns Wallace, 41, died in her sleep. She had served 16 months as her husband's standin, executing orders that he dictated from a desk across the hallway. She was buried in Montgomery amid military pomp, while a tearful Wallace interrupted his demagogic third-party campaign to mourn. From her deathbed, Lurleen had urged him to keep up his quest for the presidency, though public life as Governor's lady and then as the nation's only lady Governor was never to her taste. "Politics," she once recalled, "was something Daddy discussed...
...grey to the far rim of sand." The talk of a husband and wife in bed at night, speaking of their children or their friends, evokes in tone and languor the bedroom conversation familiar to all parents. In the Guerins' home, guests move through "a low varnished hallway where on a mock cobbler's bench their coats and hats huddle like a heap of the uninvited." Houses have windows whose panes are "flecked with oblong bubbles and tinged with lavender." A television screen's "icy brilliance implies a universe of profound cold beyond...
...Street from the Lorraine, on a slight rise, stands a nameless rooming house adorned only with a metal awning whose red, green and yellow stripes shade an equally nameless clientele. Into that dwelling-actually two buildings, one for whites, the other for Negroes, and connected by a dank, umbilical hallway-walked a young, dark-haired white man in a neat business suit. "He had a silly little smile that I'll never forget," says Mrs. Bessie Brewer, who manages the rooming house. The man, who called himself John Willard, carefully chose Room 5, with a view of the Lorraine...
...Hallway Sack Out. In hopes of getting the students to return to their classes, Gomulka pledged to "consider" grievances drafted by legitimate student groups, meaning those that met with rectors' permission. More important, he softened as "ill-considered" an antiZionist campaign that had passed off most of the blame for the unrest on Jew ish intellectuals. Gomulka, whose wife is Jewish, promised exit visas to Jews who want to move to Israel and en dorsed the majority of Polish Jews as loyal builders of socialism. In cavalier disregard of deepening unrest among intellectuals, however, he blasted liberal Writers Union...
...trail of blood led from the bedroom door into the hallway and up the stairs. David Edsall, who lives on the second floor, heard Miss Marshall screaming and found her on the landing. An ambulance carried her to the Cambridge City Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival...