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Pulsing Lifeline. Encouraged by such prospects, Captain John Hawkins sailed south in the fall of 1564. Having admonished his sailors to "serve God daily and love one another," he seized 300 hapless Negroes on the Guinea coast and went "bulting" off to Hispaniola, where he traded them for sugar and...
After Hawkins came Francis Drake, a seagoing genius who found the pulsing lifeline of the Spanish empire-the great artery of gold that flowed from Peru to the Isthmus of Panama, and from the Isthmus to Madrid-and tore at it like a tiger. In his most famous exploit, Drake...
Powell claimed that he was a victim of New York's "lily-white bench and underworld-controlled judges." Cops and crooks were in cahoots to prevent him from cleaning up Harlem's corruption. Prize example: Arthur Powers, a gambler, was shot to death last Oct. 20; the killers...
"Only One." As usual, Powell was less than careful with his facts. Gambler Powers had been killed on the specified date. One Perry-not Terry-Lindsay was arrested a few days later, has been in jail ever since, and is under indictment on a first-degree murder charge. Police have...
As one might almost guess, Flax eventually gets Stella pregnant, offers, somewhat unhappily, to marry her, and is refused. At the end of the play, after the baby has been born, they do decide to marry, chucking their scruples in the last act of crisis. But neither their emotional estrangement...