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...feet in front of them, even with flashlights. They felt their way along the walls and windows to get out. "The building just blew," says Bill Faulkner, 53, a Vietnam veteran who was part of the group. "I would be dead if I hadn't jumped behind a pillar." Another court officer, Ed Kennedy, who also hid behind the pillar, says he grabbed the arm of a woman in an effort to pull her behind the pillar with him. But he didn't grab her fast enough. Suddenly he realized he was holding just an arm. It was only when...
...feet in front of them, even with flashlights. They felt their way along the walls and windows to get out. "The building just blew," says Bill Faulkner, 53, a Vietnam veteran who was part of the group. "I would be dead if I hadn't jumped behind a pillar." Another court officer, Ed Kennedy, who also hid behind the pillar, says he grabbed the arm of a woman in an effort to pull her behind the pillar with him. But he didn't grab her fast enough. Suddenly he realized he was holding just an arm. It was only when...
...seen the picture. John leads the way, dressed all in white. Ringo follows in a black mod suit. Paul is next, barefoot, cigarette in hand. George brings up the rear, clad head to toe in blue denim. With a green marker I carefully tagged the stone pillar next to the Westminster NW8 street sign and the wall in front of Abbey Road Studios across the street, adding my name and the date to all the other testimonials of adoration—some quoting favorite lyrics, some merely proclaiming, “I was here,” some wishing John...
...farm on editor Ben Bradlee, who had Phil's manic brilliance without the depression. The Post went from a decent, dull paper to a crackling, moneymaking one. She was not a natural skeptic but a natural, principled truth teller, shaking the Establishment of which she was a pillar. Against the wishes of financial advisers worried about the Post's imminent IPO, she published the Pentagon papers. Alone among publishers, she followed the facts in Watergate. With the creation of the paper's irreverent Style section, Graham had to face at night the very powers that Sally Quinn was skewering...
...farm on editor Ben Bradlee, who had Phil's manic brilliance without the depression. The Post went from a decent, dull paper to a crackling, moneymaking one. She was not a natural skeptic but a natural, principled truth teller, shaking the Establishment of which she was a pillar. Against the wishes of financial advisers worried about the Post's imminent IPO, she published the Pentagon papers. Alone among publishers, she followed the facts in Watergate. With the creation of the paper's irreverent Style section, Graham had to face at night the very powers that Sally Quinn was skewering...