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...lovely as she was in death-discolored and slashed and broken. No wonder at all that Dr. Sam cried. He could remember well, without looking. Her face was oval, her skin the very fair kind with fine pores. Where there were no wounds, it had a peach-like tint, faintly damp with the dewiness of the newly dead...
...late start last season, the triumvirate sponsored two plays: T.S. Eliot's Confidential Clerk, Liam O'Brien's The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker. Neither lost money; Clerk stirred up a critics' controversy. This year Producer Whitehead will present Clifford (Golden Boy) Odets' new The Flowering Peach, plus a pair of plays still in the works. With three Broadway theaters leased, Stevens & Co. will have a sure home for Saint Joan when it gets to Manhattan in April, will have no trouble booking its riskier productions. More important, if Joan's tour (weekly cost...
...Daniel Freeman, on Jan. 1, 1863. A few minutes after the law came into effect at midnight, he dragged a protesting land registrar from a New Year's Eve dance to file his claim at Beatrice, Neb., later built a log cabin for his family and planted 400 peach trees on his 160-acre quarter section. Typically, Interior has since reclaimed the claim. Now it's Homestead National Monument...
...Placerville, Calif., a cop succeeded where many an oldtime American League catcher had failed: he caught baseball's famed Georgia Peach, Ty Cobb, 67, trying to steal home (to nearby Nevada). Booked for drunken driving and having no license, Midnight Rider Cobb was soon sprung on $315 bail...
...town. That night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line on Cemetery Ridge. Lee's army followed, and during the next two days in fierce fighting at Little Round Top, the Devil's Den, the Wheat Field, Peach Orchard, Gulp's Hill, Spangler's Spring and other positions along the Union line, tried unsuccessfully to dislodge the Northerners. On the afternoon of July 3, Major General George E. Pickett led 15,000 Confederates on a gallant but ill-advised charge into the teeth of well-positioned...