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...blows!" murmured a spectator, and most of the crowd agreed. Then Middlecoff went out in a brisk 35 to take the lead. Venturi murmured to himself: "Boy, you've got to get off your butt and go." Result of the new "go": he shot three successive birdies (the 13th through 18th) and came home through the back nine in 35. Middlecoff, meanwhile, ran into poor luck. His eyes were swollen from hay fever, and someone had borrowed his jacket, which contained the medicine he needed. Jittery and red-eyed, he fell apart, finished with a slow 40. That...
Last week, in the trial's 13th month. Leon Jungschlaeger waited out the closing weeks in a 5-ft.-by-9-ft. cell in Djakarta's Tjipinang Prison. Said the International Commission of Jurists: "It is abundantly clear . . . that the accused Jungschlaeger has not been accorded a fair trial." As the prosecutor delivered his rebuttal, Indonesian Judge Gustaaf Adolf Maengkom nodded approvingly from time to time. After all, six months ago he had told a reporter: "I know this man is guilty...
...wickedness of the valley. Indeed the valley, Fate Laird is forced to decide in the end, is "like a pretty woman loaded with syphilis." The chief disease carrier is a dropsical old shark called Book Gresham, the tag end of Tuxahatchie's first family. In defiance of the 13th Amendment, Book Gresham keeps a slave called Bodoc whom he won in a crap game. Symbolically, Book is impotent, apparently the result of one of those odd Southern boyhood experiences (with a Negro woman "musty like wild grapes") that suggest Dr. Kinsey was wasting his time among the modest aberrations...
Hanging is an old Anglo-Saxon custom. In the 13th century, punishment by death, in forms varying from the headsman's ax to the witch's pyre, was imposed as a deterrent for virtually every crime on the books. More than five centuries later, there were still some 200 crimes (including poaching) punishable by death in England. Children as young as seven were hanged. The first sweeping move toward clemency was not made until 1835, when these 200 mortal crimes were cut to four -high treason, murder, piracy, and setting fire to the royal dockyards and arsenals...
...Using head, elbows and glove laces with wicked efficiency, Featherweight Champion Joe ("Sandy") Saddler spent twelve rounds at San Francisco's Cow Palace cutting up Filipino Challenger Gabriel ("Flash") Elorde. Finally Flash bled so badly that the referee stopped the fight in the 13th, let Sandy keep his title...