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Though Lloyd had been drunk during the critical conversation with Mrs. Surratt, an overzealous military court accepted his testimony. The widow-whose last words to a priest were "Father, I am innocent"-was hanged in July 1865 along with three alleged members of Booth's cabal. The U.S. Government, meanwhile, had changed the name of Surrattsville to Robeystown; today, it is known as Clinton...
...smooth over a troublesome incident. He dispatched a Japanese official to nearby Norfolk to lay a wreath on the grave of General Douglas MacArthur, the commander whose forces had defeated Japan but who had allowed Hirohito to keep his title. The gesture was made to appease MacArthur's widow, who had said she was "very unhappy" that Hirohito's schedule would not permit him to visit the grave...
Visiting friends in Hawaii, the widow of a second American writer, Mary Hemingway, dropped by to view the filming of Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway's semiautobiographical novel published after his death. She gave sound approval to Actor George C. Scott, who plays the hero Thomas Hudson...
...part series that began this week. If there is a television aesthetic, the BBC comes close to fulfilling it in Shoulder, a show that could have easily degenerated into agitprop; instead it is made a continually probing revelation of period and character. Led by a beautiful, red-haired widow, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, the suffragettes endured ridicule, torture and repeated jailings; several of them were killed. The angriest went underground, accelerating their demands with bombings and trashings. Perhaps fortunately for both sides, World War I broke out. Mrs. Pankhurst wasted no time in exchanging militancy...
...year is 1878, but already night has fallen all along India's northwest frontier. Someone in the 20th Indian Light Cavalry is assaulting women. The entire regiment is in a flap. Surly, cynical Second Lieut. Edward Millington (James Faulkner) is accused of brutalizing comely Marjorie Scarlett (Susannah York), widow of a regimental hero...