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...until he could seize a dramatic moment. He chose the night of April 14, 1865 when Lincoln was to attend a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington. Booth visited the presidential box-No. 7-a few hours before curtain time, saw that the lock on its door was broken and cut a small peephole through the wood...
SONIA DELAUNAY-Granville, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th St. Gouaches and oils done by the widow of Painter Robert Delaunay. Brilliant suns whirl across the canvases, lock in geometrical embraces of color. Through...
Since 1958 Nkrumah has wielded a law allowing his government to lock up any Ghanaian without trial for five years, merely by charging that the activities of the accused might prejudice national defense, relations with other countries or security. Last week the Accra Parliament shouted through an amendment authorizing the President to extend for an additional five years the detention period of anyone held under the original act. The amendment is believed aimed at 40-odd opposition leaders who have been in prison since November 1958, accused (but never convicted) of conspiring to assassinate government ministers and to poison...
...said meaningfully to my cellmates. On the Negro side, I could hear the clatter of a drawn gun on bars like a stick dragged along a picket fence. "They'll be no damn singing in this jail!" came the shout. We got handcuffs to lock ever' one a you to the bars. Y'all shut up an' stay shut up--raisin' san' when we got to work...
Lemmon plays the lecherous landlord of the Centaur Apartments, a fellow who rents only to women and has a key for every lock. The minute he sees the heroine he starts weaving Lemmoniacal schemes to lure her into his "sin bin," a flat with blood-red wallpaper, passion-pit living room, bed about the size of Luxembourg, and two Murphy violins that hideaway in a closet and at the flick of a switch pop out and play...