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Slave v. Grave. Throughout his oratory ran a dark premonition that he would be slain. And with reason. Back in Montgomery, a twelve-stick dynamite bomb had been thrown on his porch, but failed to explode. In Harlem in 1958, a deranged Negro woman stabbed him dangerously near the heart. He had been pummeled and punished by white bullies in many parts of the South. He was hit in the head by a rock thrown in Chicago. When he won the Nobel Prize, Coretta King mused: "For the past ten years, we have lived with the threat of death always...
...dropped out of high school at 18, largely, he claims, because of a teacher who was "prejudiced" against him as a Negro. "I couldn't dig that scene very hard anyway," he says. By that time, he was learning the guitar to Muddy Waters records on his back porch. After a stint as a paratrooper, he toured the rhythm-and-blues circuit, working his way to Nashville, Harlem, Greenwich Village and finally London...
...more collectors per capita than any other city in the U.S. And in Chicago, when a collector develops a taste for art, he is,likely to treat himself to gargantuan helpings. Walls full of it. Rooms full of it. When the rooms fill up, he will glass in the porch or build an annex. When these are full to the rafters, he simply buys another house...
Murray did catch Peter Gabel '68 switching papers on President Pusey's front porch, but there was no bloodshed...
Private Sessions. That does not seem to bother the four Merseysiders and their ladies-the three Beatle wives, Paul McCartney's girl friend and George Harrison's sister-in-law-as they take private meditation sessions with His Holiness on his rooftop porch, or sit down to vegetarian meals in the communal dining room. Just how much longer they will stay to enjoy such back-water bliss is uncertain. Though the course lasts for three months and confers on those who complete it a sort of guru status of their own, the Beatles' manager hinted last week...