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...tells how print and broadcast reporters covered the shooting in the quaint days before cable news and mobile satellite crews. A TV cameraman inside the book depository had to throw his tape out the window so it could be rushed to the studio, and Walter Cronkite recalls that CBS had no camera ready in its newsroom for his reading of the bulletin. This is an intriguing piece for news junkies, but it's curious that CNN should air it, since the dignity of men like Cronkite (and they are all men here) is a rebuke to today's 24-hour...
...original concept for Macaulay’s first children’s book was that of a gargoyle beauty pageant set in the Middle Ages, against the backdrop of a half-finished cathedral. Macaulay said his editor, Walter Lorraine, took one glance at the drawings of flying gargoyles in the cathedral and asked, “Why don’t you just tell us about the cathedral? There’s enough fantasy stuff out there, but this is something we haven’t seen.” The rest is history...
Wyatt and more than 300 of the most seriously injured have come to the bucolic Walter Reed, which has been treating wounded U.S. soldiers since World War I. The men--and a few women--coming off the Iraqi battlefields in stretchers tend to be young: Castro is 23, Meinen 24, and Wyatt, from Franktown, Colo., turned 21 two weeks before losing his leg. Many enlisted as a way to earn money for college and get in shape, but now they're wheelchair bound. Contrary to the old Army recruiting motto, they're not fighting to be all they...
...also take bus trips and tour the capital. The typical stay averages about six months--half the time healing and preparing for an artificial limb, the other half learning to live with it. The pain is decreased by the presence of family members, many of whom can live on Walter Reed's 147-acre campus. Although the soldiers relish stop-bys from stars like Bruce Willis and Jennifer Love Hewitt, they glow when speaking of getting their Purple Hearts from President Bush. "Laura and I are here to thank the brave souls who got wounded in the war on terror...
...DIED. WALTER WASHINGTON, 88, former mayor of Washington and first black chief executive of a major American city; in Washington. The great-grandson of a slave, he was appointed Washington's mayor by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967; eight years later, after the city won home rule, he became its first elected mayor in more than 100 years. He steered the capital through some of the nation's worst urban riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., organized a new municipal bureaucracy and gave the city a budget surplus...