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...free at eleven by the same master who owned and freed his mother, Johnson became an apprentice barber. At 21, he opened a shop of his own in Natchez and prospered. When he married, in 1835, he was a solid man of property, owner of four slaves and the most prosperous barbershop in town. That same year, he began to keep a shrewd and candid diary; when he died in 1851, shot in a boundary dispute by a half-breed, the diary filled 2,000 pages. Rediscovered almost 90 years later in the attic of his old house, William Johnson...
...bandits found a single Liberal in the local jail, held on suspicion of aiding the bandits. Freed, this man showed Tulio's boys two drums of fuel intended for a local power plant. "If only they hadn't found that fuel!" mourned a San Pedro survivor later. Tulio ordered the town's homes burned, to flush out any possible police ambush, but forbade his men to fire the church or the school...
Honest Bob. In High Point, N.C., after a friend squared the $9 he owed on bad checks, Robert Denny was freed from jail just in time to play his role of Abraham Lincoln in the town's historical pageant...
...Freed on his own $10,000 bail last week was Frederick Vanderbilt Field, millionaire Communist angel, whom Judge Ryan had sentenced to 90 days for contempt of court. Field, a trustee of the Civil Rights Congress bail fund, refused to tell what he knew of the organization's real identity or source of funds. Still in jail on the same charge were two other trustees, one of them Mystery Writer Dashiell (The Thin Man) Hammett...
...offer to the Vatican last month to release imprisoned Archbishop Stepinac. Tito's condition: that Stepinac leave Yugoslavia the moment he is released. Last week the Vatican reported Tito's offer-and its own reply: no bargain. "The Holy See would be pleased if Monsignor Stepinac were freed," said the answer to Tito. "The Holy See is informed, however, that that Most Excellent Prelate, being convinced of his innocence, prefers to remain near his faithful." That seemed to hand Tito's awkward dilemma right back to Tito...