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...expensive Beekman Place house, flashed his property deed, then ordered private detectives to break the locks with a heavy screwdriver. When the doors were open, Billy, police and reporters made a brief inspection of the five-story building. About 90% of his "treasures," Billy announced after a solemn survey, had been "looted." Billy had been trying to get in ever since Eleanor locked him out last year. How could he keep up the insurance on his treasures, he wanted to know, until he again took full residence there? Now that he was in and Eleanor was out, Eleanor...
...solemn ceremony in Suresnes, France, SHAPE Chief Matthew B. Ridgway & wife, General George C. Marshall and France's Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin joined in the dedication of two new wings on the memorial chapel in the American Military Cemetery, where U.S. dead of both world wars are buried. Marshall, as chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, delivered the main address...
Stevenson wound up his day in Los Angeles with a speech in the Shrine Auditorium. Then he set off on the final leg of his Western trip, a hasty one-day swing through Arizona and New Mexico. In Phoenix he complained that Republicans would not debate some of "the solemn questions" facing the U.S. "Their whole campaign," he gibed, "reminds me of a phonograph record that monotonously repeats 'I love you, I love you, I love you' -and adds 'honey chile' and a rebel yell when the caravan moves South." In Albuquerque he warned against...
Seven years after the gas chambers of Dachau were shut down, Germans and Jews sat down to sign a solemn agreement. By it, West Germany undertook, in the words of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, to "make moral and material amends" for the "unspeakable crimes committed in the name of the German people...
...George Templeton Strong, a New York boy of 15, began a diary. In its first few years the diary recorded a gleeful account of student pranks at Columbia, a burlesque of its president's sermon on "The Moral Turpitude of Snow-Balling," a solemn discovery that Shelley's poetry was "rather humbuggical." By the time of Strong's death in 1875, the diary, with a massive total of 4.500,000 words, had become a solid record of 19th century life, a treasure house of Americana...