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Langston's dressing room at the Diplomat is small but comfortable with one large mirror taking up an entire wall. A large black trunk, the kind you took to sleep-away camp, sits open on the dresser, his name in bold letters painted on the front. Inside is an assortment of paper bags, large ones, small ones ("Pictures of me as a child"), some with faces drawn on, and some clothes. The two musicians sit on stools as Langston washes and takes off his sweat-drenched shirt...
...wealthy monk. A woman's ashes in the trunk of a green Cadillac. Tales of hypnotism and drug taking at a wealthy physician's Malibu house. These are all elements in a bizarre story that has been unfolding in two Southern California courts. But the tale could serve as the plot of a Dashiell Hammett mystery novel...
...husband for the rest of his life." She dies at La Scola's Malibu home on July 18,1979, of congestive heart failure, according to a death certificate signed by the doctor. He has her cremated and puts a cardboard box containing her ashes in the trunk of her car, which he has inherited...
CHAPTER THREE. In Riverside Superior Court, at a series of custody hearings in July, Mary Kaye accuses La Scola of having used hypnotism and drugs to persuade the Theras to adopt him. She charges that he has unfeelingly left Georgia's ashes for a year in the Cadillac trunk. La Scola countercharges that Mary Kaye coerced the monk into marriage for his money...
...League and one of the nation's foremost black leaders, drove back to the Marriott Inn where he was staying in Fort Wayne, Ind. As he stepped from the fire-engine red Pontiac Grand Prix, a burst of rifle shots shattered the muggy night. Jordan slumped against the trunk of the car, then collapsed on the pavement, his head resting near the left taillight. He was alive, but he had been grievously wounded by two bullets from a .30-06 rifle...