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...gaze that saw all and feared nothing--that suggested God on a day full of promise and threat. OSSIE DAVIS, who died last week in Miami Beach, at 87, was an actor, playwright, film director and civil rights spokesman who invested each role with passion and purity. Born Raiford Chatman Davis (the initials R.C. became Ossie), he wrote two successful Broadway shows--Purlie Victorious, a satire of race relations, and its musical version, Purlie--and, decades later, became the patriarchal conscience of seven Spike Lee films (among them Do the Right Thing, right). In 1946, at his first Broadway...
...sort of reverse adoption, each kid claims a fireman as his or her own. Some gravitate to Albert Shaw, who drives the truck and teaches chess at the kitchen table. Others crowd around Steve ("the Preacher") Ellerson, who gives haircuts and lectures on good grades. Andre Raiford, built like an oaken door, drills the children on multiplication tables. Each fireman imparts lessons in some area and helps enforce a strict behavior code. Swearing and drug dealing are prohibited. Faces must be clean, hair combed, hands washed. "All these kids know is what they see around the projects," says Lewis...
Lucas fingered Toole, currently serving a 20-year sentence in Raiford, Fla., for arson, as his most frequent accomplice. During subsequent interviews with police, Toole, Lucas' occasional lover, claimed more than 50 murders of his own, mostly of young men. Like Lucas, Toole was chillingly matter of fact in the telling. "It's as though he were discussing the weather," reported one detective...
Nevertheless, he now awaits his fate on death row in Florida State Prison at Raiford. McCray looks back in anger: "I feel victimized by the Florida Supreme Court, which waited 5½ years to rule on my case, which granted me a new trial and then abruptly took it away. [A 4-3 decision last March in McCray's favor was reversed six months later when one justice changed his vote without explanation.] I feel victimized by my clemency lawyer, who never even bothered to read the transcript of my trial. I feel victimized by a lawyer who took...
...guilt of Pitts and Lee." He recommended that they be given a full pardon. Under Florida law, the Governor needed the concurrence of at least three of his cabinet officers, who are independently elected. Last week the third O.K. came, and Pitts, 31, and Lee, 40, walked out of Raiford. The state gave them $100 each. Pitts said he harbored "bitterness" but not "hatred." Said Lee just before he got out: "I won't believe it until I'm 300 miles away from this place." Back at Port St. Joe, the present owner of the Mo-Jo said...