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...squad lined up 30 ft. from the prisoner, and the soldiers raised their U.S.-made carbines. The captain shouted: "Ban!" (Fire!). There was a ragged volley. Then the prisoner's body slumped against the straps, and blood began to flow over the high-necked black robe and white silk pantaloons. Pistol drawn, the captain strode forward, delivered the coup de gráce behind the left...
ANDY WARHOL-Stable, 33 East 74th. "Paintings are too hard," Warhol once complained. "The things I want to show are mechanical." So he had someone make 500 wooden boxes for him; someone else made silk screens of the designs on the cardboard cartons that hold the products of Del Monte, Brillo, H. J. Heinz, Campbell's, Mott's and Kellogg's. Warhol himself, with help, squeegeed the color onto the boxes, wrapped them in brown paper to be carted to the gallery, and planned their arrangement in towering tiers. Lest viewers think it's just another...
...walked home. Next morning a porter in Mrs. Haas's apartment building saw blood on the lobby floor. He followed a trail of bloody streaks for 30 ft., at last found Mrs. Haas's body beneath the stair well. She had been beaten, strangled with her own silk scarf, robbed, raped, and slashed with a razor...
...aboard the Archer. We had passed Bishop's Rock and were entering the Channel, when another US Line ship came by, and I was told to dip our flag in the customary salute. When I came forward again I passed him, and he pointed over the stern to that silk flapping thing, saying, "anywhere this flag flies is no place for the black man." He wasn't personally bitter, only very disappointed and very analytic...
...room palazzo. For an estimated $3,000,000, he created a magnificent clutter. Oriental porcelains and blue Sevres china, Roman drinking cups and medieval armory filled every corner. Gobelin tapestries, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, caparisoned the walls. His personal squadron of ten gondoliers was liveried in silk and velvet costumes copied from Tiepolo and other old masters. In 1951, Don Carlos, decked out in a curly peruke and balanced atop 16-in.-platform shoes that made him 6-ft. 10-in. tall, threw a costume party for 1,500 cafe socialites flown in from Paris, New York...