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...dozen present and former Congressmen, including Long and Boggs, and cited 45 overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy. Submitting it to the judge, they asked that it be made public. Their action precipitated a panic. Lawyers for Frenkil and others, claiming only to represent "John Doe, Peter Poe and Richard Roe, et al.," petitioned the court to prevent publication of the document, which they felt would damage their clients. In response, Federal District Judge Roszel Thornsen steered a cautious middle course. He suppressed the grand jury's presentment and released a watered-down summary of his own. Then...
Also, I knew the Baptist church tower, theme of the artist's Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night. That church tower was a masterpiece of Victorian gimcrackery. It was so downright, honestly ugly that, like George Arliss, it was positively beautiful. The sound of its bell, to paraphrase Poe, was "In the startled ear of night/ How it screamed out its affright!" I think that old tower perhaps may have had a soul, and Burchfield, like William Blake, was able to commune with such spirits...
...teams were blessed with more and more All-Ivy selections each season. There were runners like Bill Grana, Bobby Leo. Vie Gatto, and Ray Horn blower: defensemen like Don Chiofaro, Dave Poe, John Tyson, John Hoffman, and John Emery...
...teams were blessed with more and more All-Ivy selections each season. There were runners like Bill Ray Hornblower; defensemen like Grana. Bobby Leo, Vic Gatto, and Don Chiofaro, Dave Poe, John Tyson, John Hoffman, and John Emery...
Carrying a Corpse. Ironies like that are easy to manufacture, and Scenarists James Poe and Robert E. Thompson operate an assembly line. Ruby tunelessly chants The Best Things in Life Are Free, then crawls for the pennies people throw her way. A Harlow-eyed blonde (Susannah York) is in the contest not for the $1,500 prize, but for a chance to be seen by a movie talent scout who might elevate her to bearable unreality. When the marathon begins to drag, Rocky dresses the participants in track suits and has them race around the floor-an event that literally...