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...baseball heritage is easy to trace. Etha Talbert, Gooden's paternal grandmother, swore it was spiritual. She died this year, convinced that Dwight was "his granddaddy come back alive." The boy never knew Uclesee Gooden but loved to hear his father's energetic accounts of the angular, strong-legged, long-armed Georgia pitcher whose fastball had been consigned by the times to a black sandlot in Albany. " 'Could he bring it, Dad?' Dwight would say to me, and I'd laugh. 'Yeah, he could bring...
...Etha Argentina...
That night, as if in bitter mockery of the day's festivities, racial peace was shattered in Drew. One of the graduating seniors, a comely 18-year-old black girl named Jo-Etha Collier, was walking down a street crowded with other youngsters celebrating the end of the school year. A green Ford passed by, then people on the street heard the report of a gun, and Jo-Etha slumped to the ground. She had been shot below the ear and was bleeding heavily; she died before reaching the hospital...
...Etha was a most unlikely target for a killer's bullet. Popular with her classmates, she had starred on the girls' basketball and track teams and had received a specially created award for her school spirit. She had been planning to attend nearby Mississippi Valley State College in the fall. "It was a senseless act of violence," said Drew Mayor W.O. Williford. "It's just unexplainable...
...Society, reads: "2 -(β, β-Dicyanovinyl)-3, 5-dimethyl-4-ethylpyrrole was converted by sulfuryl chloride in acetic acid at 55° to 2-(β, β-dicyanovinyl)-3-methyl-4-ethyl-5-chloromethylpyrrole [m.p. 189-192°], and thence, by condensation with 3-carbethoxy-4-methylpyrrole in hot aqueous etha-nolic hydrochloric acid to 3', 4-dimethyl-3-ethyl-4'-carbethoxy-5-(β, β-dicyanovinyl) dipyrrylmethane [m.p. 195-197°], which, with β-carbomethoxypropionyl chloride in dichloromethane in the presence of anhydrous zinc chloride, gave 3', 4-dimethyl-3-ethyl-4'-carbethoxy-5-(β, β-dicyanovinyl...