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...nearly eight meters above the floor, a first-time visitor to Blodgett might miss the well altogether. But in this deep pond, the Harvard divers, men's and women's, the best divers in the East, fly through the air with the greatest of ease, practicing perfect tucks and knife-like entries...
...courtroom tension exploded a few minutes later. Under questioning by Fisher, Abbott testified that he had thought Adan was about to attack him with a knife. "It was a tragic misunderstanding," said Abbott, covering his eyes with a hand. From a front row of seats, Henry Howard, Adan's father-in-law, shouted: "You intended it, you scum! You scum, you useless piece of s---. You and Mailer and all the [other] creeps." The standing-room-only audience burst into applause, and court officials hustled Howard out of the courtroom. Fisher asked Judge Irving Lang to declare a mistrial...
Fisher at first told the jury that Adan had been stabbed-in an "accident"-with a knife that Adan had brought outside. But on the stand Abbott conceded that the lethal knife was his; indeed, he showed the jury how he had concealed it in the waistband of his jeans. He still insisted that he thought he saw Adan pull a knife and lunged self-protectively-but added that as Adan staggered backward after the stabbing, "that's when I saw there was nothing in his hand...
...taller figure" (Abbott). Adan, he said, made what looked like "a conciliatory gesture," turned his back and walked away. Abbott flew after him, reached over his shoulder and stabbed with such "terrific velocity" that "the hair swung back on the taller figure's head." The sound of the knife thrust, said Larsen, "rings in my ears today." As Adan lay dying, Larsen said, the "taller figure" stood over him and taunted him "very sadistically...
...frontier but still a place where a man could make a decent living making malt whiskey and selling it to the survivors of the Iroquois Five Nations, and nobody would care until the night when Jaybird Bell, liquored up on his own hootch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then he would have to flee, back across the line into western Virginia, up into one of those hollows where a man had kin. The only excitement of the trip, made in mid-winter on horseback, was that it would kill the two children he had even while his wife...