Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear the Kennedy Administration tell it. it was all out of the goodness of the American citizens' heart. Except for the sentimental support of such as Jack and Bobby Kennedy, the U.S. Government was playing no part whatever in the deal to pay ransom to Cuba's Fidel Castro...
Died. Harry F. Reutlinger, 66, longtime newsman on Hearst's Chicago American, who started as a copy boy in 1914 and, on the strength of such scoops as the Black Sox baseball scandal and the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom note, climbed to city editor (1936-51) and managing editor (1951-60); of cancer; in Chicago. In 1938, guessing that a daredevilish pilot named Douglas Corrigan might not fly to Los Angeles from New York as he had told civil aeronautics officials, Reutlinger put in transatlantic phone calls to major Irish airports. Reaching Corrigan just after the flyer landed his single...
...open the Lowell House Forum on the South tonight with a talk on the "Fugitive Poets: 30 Years After," at 8:45 p.m. in the Senior Common Room. Elliott, himself a member of the group of Tennessee poets, will illustrate his remarks with recordings of Allan Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and others reading and discussing their work at a recent reunion of Vanderbuilt University. Among future speakers in the Forum series will be Robert Penn Warren and Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution...
John Crowe Ransom: "One of the most elegant and individual war correspondents who ever existed of our world's old war between power and love . . . Generations of the future will be reading his poems page by page with Wyatt, Campion, Marvell and Mother Goose...
...many other Cuban exiles, particularly those who had no close kinfolks among the prisoners, were bitterly opposed to the ransom negotiations. Said an exile leader in Puerto Rico: "Cubans are demoralized because they fear that the U.S. Government is behind the ran som deal. It means that the U.S. does not plan to do anything to rescue these prisoners except pay money. It means that the U.S. will rescue a few Cubans, but not the whole Cuban people." Warned a Cuban exile living in Washington: "If the U.S. pays the ransom, the people of Cuba and all the rest...