Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shirtsleeved reporters and photographers, gnawing sandwiches, drinking coffee and sitting on the curb, took up the vigil outside the red brick Georgian mansion. From time to time, William McCormick Blair Jr., a Stevenson assistant, came out of his parents' house to survey the scene uneasily. He decided to open up the garden between the Blair house and the four-story brick home of his 93-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Louise de Koven Bowen. She wouldn't be disturbed; she was up at the family house near Waukegan. In the garden the Blair butler, Herman, set up a makeshift...
...starting time, the drivers dashed to the 57 sleek, low-slung racers. Some 175,000 craning fans, who brought tents and bedrolls for their 24-hour vigil, were on hand for the big show. For hour after hour, roaring wide-open on the straightaways, the cars spun around the 8.6-mile oval course, stopping occasionally for fuel or tire changes. Nighttime mist hampered visibility, but the asphalt road, lightly sanded to prevent slipping in wet weather, never became treacherous...
Soon afterward, Madeleine returned to Léon's bed & board. Then again she left. After a year of such indecisive shuttling, she left permanently. Léon brooded alone for four days. Then he loaded up his old army revolver and went to stand vigil outside the beauty shop where Madeleine worked. When she emerged, Léon fired...
...Prisons, came orders for a cuerda of 215 prisoners. The grapevine quickly spread the dread word. In cell block C, the Black Palace's toughest cons beat out the prison's nervousness in a clomping rhythm of heavy shoes. Off-duty guards rushed back to double the vigil; desperate inmates have been known to head off exile to the Three Marys by knifing fellow felons, thereby turning themselves into murderers awaiting trial rather than convicts eligible for island exile...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski, 69, postponed a Minneapolis concert, took up a vigil at the Manhattan bedside of wife Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 27, to await the arrival of their second child...