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Miss Helen Loftis, a U.S. employee, testified that she found three ounces of marijuana in a silver snuff box concealed between Miss Leary's legs, the Associated Press reports...
Happiness Is Living. Looking back, Rubinstein realizes now what a pitiable thing it was to try to snuff out his life on that day nearly 60 years ago. "When I went out into the street," he recalls, "I came back from death. I was reborn. I suddenly realized what a damn fool I had made of myself. There were people moving through the street, dogs were running around, flowers were growing in a little park?it was a wonderful, divine show. I learned then that happiness is not smiling or having money or being in good health, although those...
...hall, with a seating capacity of some 7,500, was less than half filled. Elijah Muhammad could hardly be seen behind the ranks of his bodyguards as he delivered a wheezy, two-hour harangue highlighted by a warning to would-be assassins that "to seek to snuff out the life of Elijah Muhammad is to invite doom." On the convention's second day, Elijah failed to appear. The explanation: his asthma had kicked up again...
...brilliant timbres were well covered, particularly in the soft passages. The tenors as a section were both strong and Iyric, a fact that must give their conductor great satisfaction, since most directors have to settle for one extreme or the other. The bass section, however, was not up to snuff. Two or three key men seemed to be missing. In the liturgical music, the all-important low basses were just not strong enough in the full sections, and demonstrated an alarming lack of sensitivity by being too loud in the soft passages...
...interest, rented land and shacks to Negro tenants. Each day he rose at 4 a.m. to open his store, then returned home at sundown to spend the long night hours poring over his accounts and IOUs, checking and rechecking to see that his debtors were up to snuff on their payments. "Cap" Taylor did not share his wife's liberal views concerning Negroes. Says Mrs. Lassater: "The Negroes were kept in peonage by Mr. Taylor. He would furnish them with supplies and let them have land to work, then take their land if they didn't pay. When...