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...remains out from under this twelve feet of cold concrete if you have to quarry me out." So, reasoned his grandson, would William F. Cody have reacted to his final resting place on Lookout Mountain outside Denver. Cody, Wyo., diehards have never succeeded in rustling the U.S. cavalry scout's body out from under all that concrete thoughtfully poured by Colorado officials,* but this summer they have managed to bring the feud to something like a draw with an authentic re-creation of the Old West featuring "Buffalo Bill's" own collection of Western painting...
...Force combined to comb a sea corridor that eventually widened to 129,000 sq. miles. At its height, the operation involved 55 planes -eight of them from the Navy carrier Hornet-two Coast Guard cutters, and a destroyer. Merchant ships and airliners were also asked to be on the lookout. They found nothing...
...intense colorism. From the late 1880s on, wherever he traveled, he snapped away with his Eastman Kodak No. 1. Using photos and drawing upon his early training as a lithographer, he captured actuality, studied its nature, and then bent it to his artist's will. In The Lookout, Homer used a Maine neighbor, John Gatchell, as his oilskinned model. He rummaged junk shops to find the bell that served to symbolize a stalwart ship struggling across a boiling sea, only visible itself as a glimpse of whitecaps. It is a distant and different sea that splashes in watercolors...
Beyond Lawsuits. It began one pitchy night when a brawny gang of eleven swarmed with catlike tread into the cabins of Radio City, one of the smaller pirate stations located in a renovated wartime lookout in the Thames Estuary. The marauders surprised the seven sleeping disk jockeys and technicians, who surrendered without a struggle and allowed them to cut the station off the air. Leaving nine men to hold the fort, their leader, Major Oliver Smedley, 54, a bemedaled World War II paratrooper, former Liberal Party vice president and director of twelve companies, sailed back to shore...
...shut the trap tighter, a detective then allegedly promised Danny that a full statement would free him, Grace and Chan. After several hours, said police, Danny implicated Grace and stated that he had offered Di Gerlando $500 to kill Grace's husband, and that Chan had been the lookout. Di Gerlando later charged that his confession was beaten out of him. The police denied it; he was convicted, is still serving a life sentence...