Word: midnighters
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...midnight there is a call for all the brigade commanders in the sector. During the conversation the commander tells us details of the cease-fire agreement. In the middle of the conversation, I receive reports of gunfire toward the Jewish community in Hebron. It looks as if, for the moment, the agreement does not apply to Hebron. At 2 a.m. the gunfire ceases. It is time to give final orders...
DIED. JULIE LONDON, 74, actress and breathy pop phenom whose 1955 song Cry Me a River sold more than a million copies; in Los Angeles. Honed in nightclubs, London's hushed, smoked-out voice made hits of Around Midnight and My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Encouraged to sing by second husband Bobby Troup, writer of Route 66, London released more than 30 albums. In 1972 her first husband, Jack Webb, hired London and Troup to appear as nurse Dixie McCall and Dr. Joe Early on TV's Emergency...
...Yankee, Andy Pettitte, would, when his turn came, stare down the same tunnel with a look of smoldering Sicilian sanpaku. He looked like Rudolph Valentino playing a dark, wordless, dangerous loverboy. Valentino beat Winters. Mike Piazza flied out at exactly the stroke of midnight, and the Yankees took the World Series in five games...
Fineberg practiced on the Chicoring grand piano in the tower room of Lowell House, which was also where he played trumpet with Rose. The two often played fanfares for the tradition of Lowell House High Table. And he joined student radio station WHRB, where he worked the midnight shift. ("The only time I was awake," he jokes...
...show that a Jewish mob intended to torch his house. Bishara, a member of parliament from Nazareth, advocates an end to Israel's Jewish character in favor of "a state of all its citizens." He rushed home to evacuate his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter, and at midnight a crowd gathered outside his home and stoned it. "Imagine if Arabs had attacked the house of a Jewish member of parliament," says Bishara. "They would have shot them. At my house, the police were just trying to persuade the mob nicely to go home." And there were other stories...