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...years Negroes walked soft and spoke low around Alabama's Montgomery County courthouse. Then, for four days last week, the tramp of Negro feet sounded heavy in the dingy downstairs corridors, on the creaking steps and in the second-floor hallway (with its sign reading, "Gentlemen will not and others must not spit on the floor"). In the drab courtroom, decorated by an American flag and five advertising calendars, Negro voices were raised in pain and anger. And outside the old courthouse, shabby for all its pretensions of Greek revival elegance, a Negro crowd roared hope...
Marie and Annette rented an apartment and the other sisters visited them in the evenings and on their days off. They went to movies and to dances, sometimes had friends in for dinner, but generally lived so quietly that even their hallway neighbors were unaware that the famed sisters lived in the same building. Their mother visited them, but their father, who apparently took a dim view of his daughters' new way of life, never called...
...master of Belair Stud (Gallant Fox, Omaha), one of the most widely respected sportsmen on two continents. Last week the glare of worldwide publicity beat in a way it never had before on the Woodward family. Had the wife of William Woodward Jr. deliberately shot him in that darkened hallway in their Long Island home? Was it an accident? Was there a connection between his death and the gaudy life, so different from his father's, that Bill Woodward and his wife led? The story belonged more to her biography than to the dignified annals of the Woodwards...
...Woodward's story was that, hearing a noise, she picked up the loaded shotgun kept in her room because of the prowler and fired both 'barrels across the hallway between her and her husband's bedrooms. One of the charges took Bill Woodward square in the face. The mystery was how a woman supposedly practiced in the use of firearms could unknow ingly shoot her husband at 10 ft. But former hunting companions were not surprised. One said that Ann, who seemed to take joy in hunting, always seemed to be looking one way and shooting another...
That night, after returning from the party and retiring, said Ann Woodward, she was aroused by a noise. Taking up the shotgun at her bedside, she crept into the hallway that separated her bedroom from her husband's. In the gloom, she told the cops, she saw a "shadow" across the hall. She fired twice, heard a body fall. Then she switched on the lights, with the dawning realization that it might be her husband and not a prowler...