And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness." -- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
Lady Wonder the "talking horse" of Richmond, Virginia at her "typewriter". Police confirmed that the horse answers to questions leading them to missing children. The Rhines and William McDougall tested Lady Wonder in 1927 and 1928 and concluded the horse had telepathic ability.
New York -- Nuns of the New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese march in orderly lines through the streets of Harlem during a mass demonstration of support for civil rights workers in Selma, AL. Some 300 nuns marched in the demonstration, which included more than 10,000 persons marching up Seventh Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares of the nation's largest Negro community. (1965)
Washington -- President and Mrs. Kennedy were hosts of a State Dinner at the White House in honor of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran and Empress Farah. Following the dinner the guests were entertained with a performance of Jerome Robbins' 'Ballets: U.S.A.'. Here the First Lady and the Shah, extreme right, chat with Robbins, extreme left, and a number of the cast. (1962)