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...James A. Linen...
...Sentenced to ten days for contempt of court, Leech was escorted to jail by a brass band. Half an hour later, he was pounding out a story on a typewriter in his cell-first of a ten-day series called "Jailed." Admirers sent Leech a well-stocked refrigerator, fresh linen, flowers and cigars, and a faithful reader brought her daughter to recite the Declaration of Independence in front of his cell door...
Bread & Poems. Black Bart was not the first man to snatch a Wells Fargo treasure box,* but he was far & away the most dashing. Wearing a flour sack with cutout eyeholes over his head and a long linen duster, he pulled his first job one sun-baked day in July by stepping out from behind a rock on a Calaveras County road and waving a sawed-off shotgun at Billy Hodges' stagecoach. "If they dare to shoot, give them a solid volley, boys," Black Bart shouted toward the rocks alongside the road. Driver Hodges, able to see half...
...opening day, Texas' Tom Connally, dressed in a rumpled linen suit, took the floor to begin the case for the North Atlantic Treaty. With no galleries to play to -in the old semicircular chamber where the Monroe Doctrine was first pronounced 126 years ago-Tom Connally went right to the point...
...took up residence in a suite at the Mayflower, which promptly became the scene of an all-night outpouring of liquid Puerto Rican fellowship. Next morning, nevertheless, Muñoz was up bright & early to begin a series of conferences. At noon, natty in a white linen suit, he called at the White House, emerged after half an hour to report that he had offered President Truman the use of Puerto Rico as a laboratory for experiments in Point 4 aid to undeveloped areas. In succeeding days, Muñoz had long talks with Secretary of the Interior "Cap" Krug...