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The revolver-toting stranger was not John Wilkes Booth, but a look-alike named Thomas Mines. Like Booth, he had a price on his head, but the resemblance ended there. Hines was a former Confederate cavalryman from Kentucky who had made a reputation with Morgan's Raiders. Cool, intelligent...
Two days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, a customer in a Detroit sa loon pointed at a slender, mustached young stranger and shouted: "That's John Wilkes Booth!" The stranger promptly drew a revolver, clouted the first man at hand and drove his boot into the belly of...
These are but two of dozens of miracles that nestle in So Long as Love Remembers like no-hitters in The Official Baseball Guide. It was in 1946 that Yaleman ('06) Janney rang out his bestselling Miracle of the Bells (TIME, Sept. 16, 1946), and since 1951 he has...
Tightpants battles on alone, aided only by miracles. His Olga Song ("Olga-whose eyes were violets / Olga-whose tears were pearls . . .") is a smash hit, partly because Olga comes "down" with a heavenly choir and sings it herself. His Olga Lasenka Symphony is hailed as "as great as Sibelius'...
His patient, Cecelia Bavolek, 18, a freshman at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was not yet born when Dr. Gibbon began the painstaking job of designing and testing equipment which ultimately led to last week's historic operation. Cecelia had a heart murmur which got worse. Her trouble...