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...murder of Sweden's King Gustavus III at a masquerade in the Stockholm Opera House, but in 19th century Italy, a direct reference was impolitic. So Verdi and his librettist shifted the shenanigans to colonial Boston, disguised the King as Britain's colonial governor, "Riccardo, Earl of Warwick...
Nothing but the Truth. In West Warwick, R.I., asked by the judge to explain why he ignored a policeman's signal to stop and instead snapped off his car lights and sped away, Motorist Paul R. McKenna answered: "I didn't want to be caught...
Traveling Man. In Portland, Ore., missing from home for a day and a half, eight-year-old Richard Warwick was finally found several miles away when he pedaled a pilfered tricycle up to the Maynard Motel, flashed a $26 bankroll, asked for a room for the night...
Died. Homer Lenoir Ferguson,* 80, dean of American shipbuilders, president (1915-46) of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; of a heart attack; in Warwick, Va. As boss of the nation's oldest and largest builder of merchant and naval vessels, Annapolis-trained Engineer Ferguson directed its round-the-clock construction frenzy in two world wars, built 15 of the Navy's big aircraft carriers (Hornet, Midway...
...waterfront and held a secret midnight meeting last March with moonfaced, heavy-handed Anthony Strollo-prisonbound Joe Adonis' successor in the Jersey rackets. For reasons never explained, Entertainer Phil Regan, an ex-policeman known as the "Singing Cop," furnished them his room in Manhattan's midtown Warwick Hotel for the rendezvous. Mayor Kenny denied the whole business before the grand jury. But six days later he admitted all. He had dealt with Strollo after all, but he had only gone to see Strollo for civic good-the way "Roosevelt went to see Stalin," he said. He had been...