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...Mary Etta Jaque of Rochester, N.Y., been at home the night of Sept. 16, 1958, all this might never have happened. She would have opened her front door to her boyfriend, Sylvester Jackson, then 17, and she would have either snuggled up or scolded him for being exuberantly drunk on Thunderbird wine. As it turned out, Mary Etta was not at home that night, and big Sy Jackson, looped and annoyed, kicked in her door. That brought the police, who, says Sy, proceeded to beat up on him in the patrol car. One cop threw a punch, Sy ducked...
Americans traveling abroad this year exhibit a sense of confidence, and not just because of the dollar's new strength. An improving economy and the Reagan Administration's promised tax cuts have helped to foster optimism. "It's only a gut feeling," declared Etta Brackman, who is vacationing in Greece, "but since the hostages came back from Iran I think we have recovered our pride as a nation...
...tale sent to newspapers in nearby Dallas and Fort Worth one April day in 1897 by a local correspondent named S.E. Hayden. It was generally ridiculed at the time, and most citizens of Aurora still scoff. "Hayden wrote it as a joke and to bring interest to Aurora," says Etta Pegues, 86. "The railroad bypassed us, and the town was dying...
...characters to its political message. Rather than turn Francois into a snotty villain and Pomme into a peasant saint, Goretta, an eyenhanded Swiss, attacks the system that victimizes them both. The movie's title, with its allusion to 17th century genre paintings, suggests the delicacy of Gor-etta's style...
...might be interested in the story behind the artist who originally painted the picture of the President's birthplace that the Kurds copied for the background of their Man of the Year cover [Jan. 1]. My mother, Etta Mae Humphreys, painted Johnson's birthplace last year, and after she presented her painting to the President in Washington, he wrote her that it was "a marvelous piece of work. You have captured a piece of my early years that mean a great deal to me." The President also owns her paintings of the LBJ Ranch and his boyhood home...