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...blocks from the Longfellow House and one block from the Charles River, on Elmwood Ave., is the "Lowell House." Built in 1760, the mansion was the home of Governor Elbridge Gerry, who signed the Declaration of Independence and served as U.S. Vice-President from...
...gins lay in the sort of calm, fanatical pride that cannot bear the distraction of company. One thinks of him scratching around between studio and sea like Shakespeare's exiled misanthrope Timon on the beach: "Come not to me again, but say to Athens/ Timon hath pitched his everlasting mansion/ Upon the beachEd verge of that salt flood...
...during a crime of violence and transporting a firearm across state lines with the intention of killing the president. The former army medic waited outside the White House for hours, then pulled a semiautomatic rifle out of his trench coat andfired 30 bullets at the front of the executive mansion. No one was hurt and the Secret Service said that the president was never in danger...
...Paul Theroux as it is to Dominick Dunne. Populated by a townful of Southern Gothic characters, from patrician bon vivants like the polo-playing Harry Cram to Williams' canny, football-obsessed lawyer Sonny Seiler to local eccentrics like maid Gloria Daniels, who conducted tours of her employer's mansion, occasionally supplementing them with renditions of Stormy Weather, the book is a portrait of a gossipy and class-conscious Savannah--mannered, monied and soaked to its soul in the finest bourbon...
LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman today testified that his heart "started pounding" when he realized that the sticky, blood-soaked glove he discovered behind O.J. Simpson's mansion matched another that had been found near the bodies of Simpson's ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Fuhrman testified that he came across the second glove near a wall where Simpson houseguest Kato Kaelin heard noises on the night of the slayings and that it appeared out of place because it did not have any dirt, twigs or leaves on it. Under cross-examination by defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, Fuhrman...