Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Unnamed Lake. A few years ago, a heart ailment slowed down Hester's long search. One day in February 1959, he said to his wife with a sad, fond smile: "The next heart attack I have, I'll see Bob." That same day, at 63, he died...
...Munich's cathedral 15,000 people heard New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman attack Communism as "a wild beast of the forest," making "this the most dangerous summer since 1939." Climax of the congress came Sunday, when more than a million people streamed for the final Mass into the vast Theresienwiese fair grounds, surrounding a high wooden altar. Direct from Rome they heard a radio message from John XXIII: "You and we perceive with great concern what dark clouds of danger hover over mankind and how heavily the peace of nations is threatened. Therefore let us pray together...
...Pampas") Firpo, 65, Argentine heavyweight, who in 1923 in boxing's greatest first round, decked Champion Jack Dempsey and later belted him clear out of the ring, but was floored seven times himself and finally finished after three more knockdowns in the second round; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. When Dempsey later visited Firpo, who became a wealthy cattleman, with 10,000 head on six Argentine ranches, he commented: "When a boxer leaves the ring ... he has lost the fight. In my heart, Firpo was world champion of all weights...
...auto-body paint sprayer, by night Imperial Wizard of the self-styled only "true" latter-day Ku Klux Klan, an Atlanta-based organization claiming membership in nine states and believed to be the biggest (an estimated 50,000 "knights") of several Klans still operating; of a heart attack; in College Park...
...ghostly first wife in Blithe Spirit in 1941, was married only once (for four years to onetime NBC Vice President John F. Royal) though her "list of fiances," she often said, "included a majority of the peers listed in Debrett's"; of a heart attack; in Vleuten, The Netherlands...