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...youngest son's imagination was captured by Glenn's flight over our part of the world. During the night, Roger's alarm clock woke all the household. Then he went outside, scanning the heavens, hoping for a glimpse of his hero. Of course, the fact that the capsule passed over Woomera and Perth (hundreds and hundreds of miles away from our place) didn't deter Roger...
Merrick submitted the ad to five of the seven newspapers, and all but the Trib turned it down. The Trib would have, too, but its advertising department was apparently asleep in the subways. When the Trib finally woke up, the ad was thrown out. Although New York's Better Business Bureau squarely opposed Merrick's antic, the real critics themselves thought it was funny. Said John Chapman of the Daily News: "Hilarious...
...suicide took on a new sinister significance. The child's story completely contradicted Harvey's. On the night of the tragedy, she said, she and René had gone to their cabins about 9 o'clock. "Later I heard screaming and stamping and I woke up and it went away, and I went upstairs to see what it was and I saw my mother and my brother laying on the floor and there was blood all over. I went up to the captain and he shoved me down." She retreated belowdecks to her bunk. Later the captain...
Shifting to the North, the report cites Chicago police treatment of Negro James Monroe and his family, who were awakened in their West Side apartment at 5:45 a.m. by 13 police officers, ostensibly investigating a murder. The police, says Justice, "broke through two doors, woke the Monroe couple with flashlights, and forced them at gun point to leave their bed and stand naked in the center of the living room. The officers roused the six Monroe children and herded them into the living room. Detective Frank Pape struck Mr. Monroe several times with his flashlight, calling him 'nigger...
...staff woke up one morning- it had ever gone to bed--to find that paper had survived for fifty years and peared inordinately healthy. The New York Evening Post called the Crime "a fine and high-grade expression of the best student sentiment," while Mother Advocate, thinking back to the days when the paper was an upstart literary magazine, observed, "If child is father to the man, the two are often strangely dissimilar...