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...Marines, McKean claims, were a tinhorn elite corps until World War I, when Correspondent Floyd Gibbons immortalized the 4th Marine Brigade in the Battle of Belleau Wood. Actually, Gibbons wrote his flaming story in advance, was wounded by a stray bullet that cost him his left eye, and never saw the battle he described so vividly. Nor did he mention the other 20,000 soldiers of the Army's 2nd Division, who fought just as-bravely as the 8,000 marines in the French forest. There is no question that the marines displayed surpassing gallantry at Belleau Wood...
...eliminate a foe who was getting greater and greater backing for a comeback among the U.N.'s members. For days, Elisabethville's gossip mills had buzzed with rumors that Lumumba had been shot in jail. According to one story, the famous prisoner had died from a bullet on the morning of Jan. 18, a day after he was shipped in from Léopoldville by Colonel Joseph Mobutu...
Along the way, Gregory has had occasional hecklers, and once in a rare while the word nigger has come like a bullet to the stage. His reaction is cool. "According to my contract, the management pays me $50 every time someone calls me that," he says. "Please do it again." Explains Gregory about his material: "If I don't handle it just right, the audience will feel sorry for me. And you can't make people laugh if they feel sorry for you." Dick Gregory handles it right, because clearly he is not sorry for himself, as when...
...were high. One chill night, Harper's Artist Theodore R. Davis, sharing his threadbare blanket with a Union soldier, waked at dawn to find his bedfellow dead beside him. "It was plain.'' wrote Davis afterward, ''that but for the intervention of his head the bullet would have gone through my own." To oblige Major General George G. Meade, Harper's Special Artist Alfred R. Waud scaled a tree to draw the enemy lines - and enemy fire. "Rebel sharpshooters," he wrote, "kept up a fire at me the whole time...
Bruce was soon well enough for the 90-mile ride to Billings, Mont. There X rays located the bullet - in Bruce's left knee. Evidently the bullet had hit a rib, lost its momentum, entered the pulmonary vein carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart's upper left chamber. Car ried along with the blood, the slug went through the mitral valve into the left ventricle and up through the aortic valve. It turned downward at the aorta's arch in the upper chest, and traveled through the femoral artery until this became...