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Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow...
Think how it wakes the seeds, Woke, once, the clays of a cold star...
...Save the Children!" Eatherly then took a more prosaic job as a Texaco salesman in Houston. Legend has it that he was tormented by a recurring nightmare in which he woke up screaming, "Bail out! Save the children!" (His wife says he slept like a log.) After his wife had a miscarriage, he was afraid radiation might have affected his spermatozoa. He began to drink heavily and pass bad checks. In 1950, he made a halfhearted attempt at suicide and was admitted to the VA hospital in Waco, Texas...
...situation appeared even more serious, and Bobby finally released a rather limp announcement through Justice Department Aide Ed Guthman. It said that the Attorney General "wishes to discourage any efforts on his behalf in New Hampshire or elsewhere." At about that same time, New Hampshire's Democratic leaders woke up to the situation, began urging voters to write in Johnson as well as Bobby...
...Ruby throw a man downstairs, pounce on him and beat his head repeatedly on the sidewalk, then rise in bewilderment and say, "Did I do this? Did I do this?" George Senator, 50, Ruby's bachelor roommate who identified himself as "a former postcard salesman," recalled that Ruby woke him at 3 a.m. the day after Kennedy was shot, seemed "very, very solemn, very moody." Dallas Rabbi Hillel Silverman, who had known Ruby for ten years, recalled that one day last year Ruby suddenly appeared on Silverman's front yard with half a dozen dogs. Said the rabbi...