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...first inkling that The Musicians was still in existence came in the mid-'30s, when a north-of-England antique dealer named Joe Cookson spotted an interesting painting in a Cumberland country house. "It was very grimy," recalls Dealer Cookson, "and you could see that it had been painted over and over. The name 'Caravaggio' was on it, and the tag end of the 'Michelangelo...
...Innocents (adapted by William Archibald from Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.; produced by Peter Cookson) dramatizes with considerable tact and fidelity what is probably the most famous of modern ghost stories. As does The Turn of the Screw, it often whispers rather than speaks, suggests far more than it explains, and calls up something not only eerie but evil...
...Heiress*-a period play of mid-19th Century Manhattan-centers in Catherine Sloper (strikingly played by Britain's Wendy Hiller), an awkward, passive, plain-looking girl with great expectations. She falls passionately in love with an attractive fortune hunter (well played by Peter Cookson); but her coldhearted, sardonic father (well played by Basil Rathbone), thoroughly aware of the suitor's motives and utterly unconcerned with his daughter's feelings, forbids the match on pain of disinheritance...
...nine of Nash's friends for obstructing justice. But of the actual killers they had none. Miller was dead and as usual, Floyd, with Richetti, was at large. Born 30 years ago on a Georgia farm, Floyd moved with his parents at an early age to the Cookson Hills District of the Oklahoma Ozarks. There he got the nickname of "Choc" and a bad reputation. At 18 he robbed a neighborhood post-office of $350 in pennies. A three-year apprenticeship in the St. Louis underworld landed him, in 1925, in Missouri Penitentiary for a payroll robbery. There...
...cartridges, they left. An hour later a garage owner said a man tendered him five $100 bills for a new car, then fled in the old car when he began inspecting the notes. And all the time "Pretty Boy" Floyd was working steadily southward to his favorite haven -the Cookson Hills. Tulsa, Okla., added a final flourish to the affair by lodging against Floyd one more charge: parking overtime three years ago in the business section...