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...capital checked again, and decided that Booth had probably got away into southern Maryland. Then, as troopers rode out along the Potomac (it took twelve days to corner and kill Booth), Stanton and Mrs. Lincoln entered the little bedroom where Lincoln lay on a cornhusk mattress. Outside, a throng of weeping people, mainly Negroes, waited in the damp street. Cavalry horses were tied four and five to a picket post along the block. Newsboys ran past, shouting: "Assassination!" At the Baltimore & Ohio terminal, all train traffic stopped as detectives searched passengers, trainmen, mail bags...
...bodyguards pinned down for several minutes, then made their getaway in the Dodge. At Santo Tomas hospital doctors gave the President five transfusions−but it was likely that the bullet which pierced his aorta killed Remón even before he reached the operating table. Next day a throng of 40,000 followed his bier, borne on a firetruck to Panama City's old downtown cemetery...
...Surana, have been on constant guard at the city's cremation grounds to prevent further acts of suttee. The priest who had charge of the original Singh funeral is in jail awaiting trial for making a pyre built for two. But every day and night, crowds of worshipers throng the death site with offerings that range from coconuts to gold plate, and from all sides the halt, the near hopeless and the blind hobble into the city, seeking miracles and willing to pay the holy men generously for bringing them about...
After serving three years, eight months and five days in prison for perjury, Alger Hiss was paroled (until next September). Outside the prison a throng of more than 70 newsmen surged around him as he intoned his careful words: "I am very glad to use this chance-the first I have had in nearly four years-to reassert my complete innocence of the charges that were brought against me by Whittaker Chambers ... I have had to wait in silence while, in my absence, a myth has been developed. I hope that the return of the mere man will help...
Pressed by overcrowding and goaded by visions of hundreds of "war babies" to soon throng into the College, the Housemasters will meet in the coming few weeks to consider expansion of present housing facilities. Among the proposals before them will be plans for a new-House or Houses, and for the addition of extra units to Winthrop and Leverett. The first proposal is the most realistic solution to the problem, for the latter will neither provide for future expansion nor adequately relieve present congestion...