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Come Back, Little Sheba. Burt Lancaster as a reformed drunk and Shirley Booth as his slatternly wife in a film version of William Inge's play (TIME...
More often, one incident after another seemed to have been sent by fate to deepen the old wound. Booth got a letter from a sergeant named Corbett, asking for free tickets to a performance. "I am sure you will not refuse," wrote Corbett, "when I tell you that I am the . . . soldier that shot and killed your brother." Booth sent the tickets...
John Wilkes Booth had been the darling of the family. On Edwin fell the double burden of detesting the assassin while mourning the brother. In the one role, Edwin reimbursed the Virginia farmer whose barn had been burned down around brother John. In the other, he pleaded with the authorities to allow the Booths to give John's body Christian burial. He wrote to Secretary of War Stanton, who did not deign to reply. He wrote to General Grant, who ignored him too. It was President Andrew Johnson who at last handed over John's remains, the raven...
...consolation existed for Edwin Booth. In a railway station one day, he saw a young man, jostled by the crowd, fall between the platform and the wheels of a moving train. Booth sprang forward, pulled him up, and saved his life. The young man was Abraham Lincoln's son Robert...
...Shirley Booth...