Crickley Hill Reunion 2009 (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
L to R: Philip Dixon, Frank Green, Anna Collinge ? Naomi Jackson, and Jo Bacon at Ullenwood. This is from Jane Dineen's 1980 collection. It looks to C-H-M as though it may be after breakfast just before going up to site. The alternatives are pre-supper one evening or a Thursday before going into Cheltenham. Thinking of supper, a correspondent writes: "Dear Crickley Hill Man, I write...
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
This story is typical in saying nothing about jihad. But drawings made by Muhammad's partner Lee Malvo suggest otherwise. Pamela has many more here. "Muhammad execution nears, some victims' families move on," by Frank Green for the Times-Dispatch, November 8: "For three weeks in 2002, John Allen Muhammad led...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
"Muhammad execution nears, some victims' families move on": Frank Green has this article today in The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Today's edition of The Virginian-Pilot contains an article headlined "How the Beltway Sniper came to face death." And The Associated Press reports...
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
By Nicholas Stix At 9 p.m. tonight, Nation of Islam mass murderer John Allen Muhammad/John Williams is due to be executed via lethal injection , at Virginia’s Greensville Correctional Center, near Jarratt. The Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Frank Green wrote, “Muhammad, 48, was sentenced to die for the Oct. 9, 2002, slaying of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, who was shot at...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"DC sniper to ask Supreme Court to block execution": The Associated Press has this report. And last week in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Frank Green had an article headlined "Sniper's ex-wife says his real aim was to kill her."...
How books got their titles (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Often cited as the most ingenious of Christie’s novels, And Then There Were None has had a chequered titular history. It was originally Ten Little Niggers , after a Victorian minstrel show song published by Frank Green in 1869, in which ten boys are bumped off in various unpleasant ways. Christie’s novel, following the song, involved ten deaths, and was set on the consummately...
