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...final act of the Florida drama began in Tallahassee at 6:46 a.m. on Friday, May 18, when Governor Robert Graham signed two black-bordered death warrants. One was for Willie Jasper Darden, 45, a professional robber who had been convicted of murdering a furniture store owner in Lakeland, Fla., in 1973. Darden's lawyers soon won an indefinite stay of execution so that a federal judge could consider their argument that the prosecutor prejudiced the jury at Darden's trial by saying that the defendant "shouldn't be out of his cell unless...
DIED. Elizabeth Hadley Mowrer, 87, the first of Ernest Hemingway's four wives; in Lakeland, Fla. Mowrer (nee Richardson) and Hemingway were married in 1921. Five years later, he divorced her to marry Fashion Writer Pauline Pfeiffer. Remorseful, the novelist dedicated The Sun Also Rises to "Hadley," assigned her its royalties, and wrote fondly of her and their one child "Bumby" in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. In 1933 Hadley married Paul Scott Mowrer, a Pulitzer-prize-winning foreign correspondent and later editor of the Chicago Daily News...
Under a bill passed by the House, only 17% of the region's water surface would be left for motorboating, though outboards would still be permitted in the 2 million acres of adjoining lakeland in Superior National Forest. The rules would be still tougher against snowmobiles, with the vehicles barred from all recreational areas except two corridors leading to Canada...
However, if you think I'm going to spend my week off moping under a sun lamp, dreaming of waves crashing upon white sand and bats cracking against baseballs in Winter Haven, Lakeland and Ft. Lauderdale, you've lost your marbles. And if you think I'm going to spend the week in Lamont, Cabot or Widener, dreaming about Kant, messenger RNA or the Protestant Reformation, or if you have such plans, you never had any marbles to begin with...
...about 10% from last fall, growers attribute this to higher prices, resulting from damages to the crop during last winter's severe cold spell. So far, the commission has received some 85,000 letters about Bryant, backing her 3 to 1. This week the commission will meet in Lakeland, Fla., to decide whether or not to extend her contract as its $100,000-a-year sunshine spokeswoman...