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...over with legend. It is certain that he wandered through the enemy lines for at least a week and reached Manhattan Island (the lower part of which the British had captured since Hale left Norwalk), that he collected detailed maps of fortifications, with Latin notations in the margins, and hid them under the inner soles of his shoes. Just how he was captured is unknown, but one story put it that he was recognized by a Tory relative as he sat in Rachael Chichester's tavern ("Mother Chick's"), and betrayed...
Santana fired one shot. Young Blankenship fell dying, a bullet through his heart. The Navajos fled, some riding away on their bicycles. Santana hid the pistol at his home and went to bed; when his mother returned to their shabby apartment, he was hungry. "Give me some coffee and something to eat," he said. At 3 a.m. the police, after questioning many youths, came to arrest him, and he confessed readily...
...confronted by perplexed newsmen wondering what was so funny. Recalled Ethel: "And I said. 'Something the President just said.' And they all fell flat on their faces ... He really had made me laugh very, very much. I think he had an enormous humor that he sort of hid from people. In fact, he said to me, 'I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President. And I think I'll go along with them...
Until the last few decades, "restorers" hid more pictures, under new and falsely prettifying layers of paint and varnish, than they cleaned. Modern practitioners take the bolder course of removing past additions in order to restore pictures to something approximating their original state. Sometimes they scrub with too much enthusiasm, destroying the translucent glazes of a picture surface and reducing it to the artist's bare beginnings. More often, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (TIME, Oct. 4), they succeed in bringing back much of the painting's original bloom and freshness...
...Hebrew Union College celebrated its Soth anniversary with "Thanks to Denmark" ceremonies, recalling one of the bravest mass rescues of World War II. In 1943, when Hitler sent his Gestapo to arrest all Jews in occupied Denmark, the Danes hid the Jewish population in attics, barns and cellars. Danish policemen and fishermen slipped the Jews into waiting fishing smacks that ferried them to the safety of neutral Sweden. Many of the Danish rescuers were caught by the Nazis. but of Denmark's 8,500 Jews, 7,000 were saved. Said Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union: "We Jews...