Citizen Cartwright

Nevermore?

If Democrats found Tuesday to be macabre, it was an especially eery day in Baltimore. The unknown person who for more than half a century has marked Edgar Allan Poe's birthday by placing roses and a bottle of cognac on his grave did not show up.

Anne Frank protector dies

Miep Gies, the last survivor of a group that helped hide the Frank family from the Nazis, has died at the age of 100.

Gies was a secretary for Anne's father, Otto, who had moved his family from Germany to Holland when the Nazis took power.

Hours after the Franks were betrayed and taken by the Nazis from their hiding place in Amsterdam on August 4, 1944, Gies found Anne's diary. It was published after the war and eventually was translated into more than 70 languages.