Texas a Gateway for Drugs From Mexico, Officials Say

Walter W. Williams, 117, the last living Civil War veteran, is in critical condition.   “Dear Jesus, I am writing to you instead of Santa because you are what Christmas is. I would like to say before we all forget happy birthday and thank you for the present of you.”

“Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” by Ted W. Lawson and Robert Considine. You know the scene in “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” where they fly under the bridge? Don’t do it.

Sam LoCigno is indicted in the killing of Jack “the Enforcer” Whalen. Engineer Bill in person at Builders Emporium in Van Nuys … and Covina! The Watts Towers are “bizarre.”

Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” and “Smiles of a Summer Night” are adults-only.

Former world champion featherweight, lightweight and junior welterweight Tony Canzoneri is found dead in his New York hotel room. He had been dead about two days, officials say.