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Kenney was arrested on the charge of suspicion of murder, said Lowell Police Capt. Arthur Ryan...
Plenty of books have been published on Robinson's life, including two ghost-written autobiographies bearing Robinson's name. But Rampersad, a professor of literature at Princeton and the co-author of Arthur Ashe's Days of Grace, secured the cooperation of Rachel Robinson, Jackie's widow, who gave him full access to her private papers and the archives of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. The result of Rampersad's research may strike some readers as unduly dry and academic. The prose sometimes seems stiff: "He thought of himself and his future in terms of moral and social obligations rather than...
...DIED. ARTHUR TRACY, 98, radio's sentimental Street Singer, who peddled his wares (remember Marta?) on the airwaves of the 1930s; in New York City. Tracy's identity was kept secret when he made his radio debut...
Journeying through centuries of placebo usage, the first essay of the book aims to determine whether or not the placebo is "much ado about nothing"; co-authors Arthur Shapiro and his wife Elaine present the reader with a flurry of esoteric yet entertaining historical tidbits. Though the knowledge that the 17th-century drug called "Vigo's plaster" was made of viper's flesh, live frogs, and worms may not necessarily be the best conversation-starter, such detail paints an elaborate portrait of the blind, haphazard healing practices of prescientific medics at which even the least scientifically-inclined person can gasp...
Japanese geisha, Arthur Golden '78 explains, take great care with their makeup. The lengthy and complicated process of adding layers and layers of precisely applied makeup is almost ceremonial, yet a geisha will leave a border of naked skin around the edges of her face, heightening the theatricality of her appearance. The rim of exposed skin supposedly reminds men of the rest of the geisha's well-concealed skin...