Word: thoughfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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January 12: This is the night, very stormy, ominous. I think I have the solution. The computer is "down," though, and I wait and wait with a hundred others--700 others--hoping it never revives and they call off the whole thing. My mind is exploring all the possibilities, hoping that I will miraculously pull myself out of the inner torment that endless hours of staring into a black hole has caused me. The black hole keeps saying "Syntax error" and "Improper number of arguments." Speak English...
...have been written about the conspiracy and the characters surrounding it. None has dispelled the legend that the man who was tried and hanged for the crime, Actor John Wilkes Booth, was not the real murderer. The Cosgrove Report by G.J.A. O'Toole (Rawson, Wade; 424 pages; $12.95), though fictional, makes the strongest case yet that Booth escaped. This is not an easy task: the actor had one of the most familiar faces...
...headstone unturned tracking the actor, a onetime Confederate agent. It is a harrowing assignment, leading him to prod such sacred cows as Robber Baron Jay Gould and General Lafayette C. Baker, Lincoln's spymaster. By carriage, train, boat and balloon, Cosgrove stumbles on one denouement after another -though the last and most dramatic is supplied by Colonel Croft...
...Though Wade Lau faced only 22 shots in the Harvard net all game, the Tigers jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the opening stanza and increased the margin to 4-1 after...
...story of the afternoon, though, was 6-ft. 1-in. Crimson center Holpuch, playing like old times. After a rocky season plagued by concentration and confidence problems, Holpuch walked off the court to a cheering crowd with a game-high 19 points and 12 rebounds...