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...home. When she was a teenager, Rebekah had hired her to tend the Johnson children while Rebekah taught her elocution students. Mrs. Lewis remembered the time that Lyndon had taken the younger ones up in the loft of the barn and while he was going down a ladder with one of the girls he had fallen. "He held onto the little girl," said Mrs. Lewis. "She wasn't hurt. But Lyndon broke...
...first letter continues with a precise recording of the details of the kidnaping, the ladder at the window, the ransom note. "I was afraid of a lunatic. But the well-made plan knocks that out." Again and again throughout the letters, Mrs. Lindbergh assures her correspondent-and herself-that professional kidnapers would not kill the baby. March 9th: "We rest on our assurances that the baby is safe. . . C. slept late this morning and went out for a walk. Our colds have vanished." March 16th: "They keep assuring me they are certain the baby will be returned. . . we must play...
...waning of the thirties brought the last major structural change in the running of The Crimson. Under the old system, editors would climb a ladder of advancement, from Assistant Managing Editor to Managing Editor to President, stepping in the first rung in their junior year and advancing one grade every semester. Under this plan, the first choice for President in every class was forced out of office after only a few months. In the thirties, with an expanded paper, a brace of supplements, and a Confidential Guide now issued as a separate magazine, the President had little time...
...nuclear test ban treaty. And almost every week at one point. Kissinger bombarded the paper with notices that he was cancelling his subscription because of The Crimson's inaccuracy. His letter writing campaign seemed to be his favorite hobby in the days before he worked his way up the ladder to fame...
Soon shots were ringing out from several other floors of the motel, and smoke began pouring from half a dozen balconies. One newly married couple were killed in a corridor while clutching each other in a death embrace. A fireman ascending a ladder to the tenth floor was shot. The assistant manager of the motel, investigating reports of fire, was killed as he moved down a hallway. So was Louis Sirgo, 48, the city's deputy police superintendent, as he led a search through the motel...