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...five for driving with a defective muffler, five for parking violations). In late July, the department announced its findings: 1) Martinis was speeding on the evening of the accident; 2) he was zigzagging through traffic; 3) "the accident was a direct result of Martinis' swerving" from one lane to another; 4) he left the scene of the accident "without reporting or identifying himself" to police; 5) the police had reasonable grounds to believe that he was driving while drunk because he "had an odor of intoxicants on his breath, was incoherent, and was unsteady on his feet at least...
Married. Dinah Washington, 38, jazz record queen (What a Difference a Day Makes); and Dick ("Night Train") Lane, 35, durable defensive halfback for the Detroit Lions; he for the second time, she for the seventh; in Las Vegas...
...born in 1697, that English art took on a personality of its own. For Hogarth, London was a stage, and when he painted and engraved the progress of his rakes and harlots like acts in a play, or when he opened the innards of Bedlam and Gin Lane, he caught the drama of England's lower depths as no other artist had. These works thrust upon English art a sense of flesh and blood, a spirit of realism from which it drew sustenance until sentimentality deluged the land in Victoria's day. But back of Hogarth...
Perhaps the unhappiest example of Memorial Day slaughter occurred near Cornwall, Conn. A sports car in which two young men were leaving a beer party climbed a grade along Bunker Hill on a clear afternoon, somehow skidded into the wrong lane, crashed head-on into a sedan. In the sedan, Albert Wilklow, 42, and his entire family (Wife Georgette, 37, Sons Albert Jr., 14, Frank, 12, and Daughter Paula, 10) were returning to their home in Torrington, Conn., after a day of fishing at a state park. All five died in the flaming crash. So did the occupants...
...Jersey, on that part of the high-speed turnpike that cuts like a six-lane ribbon across a five-mile stretch near Newark Airport, motorist are conscious of only one thing: the area stinks from industrial chimneys. But that is merely a discomfort. Far more dangerous is the fact that fog can and does descend upon the marshy meadowlands along the turnpike. To warn motorists, New Jersey has spent some $300,000 on fog horns, fog lights, etc. But nothing seems to work. Early one morning last week, the lethal soup swirled in. Warning signs flashed futilely. Samuel Baker...