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...also thought the U.S. should use its A-bomb against the Chinese troops if & when the generals think it militarily practical. "We should not be afraid of it on moral grounds," said Douglas. "You can kill a man just as much with a rifle or a machine-gun bullet ... as you can with an atomic bomb...
...form, his squad five years ago, big (200 lbs., 6 ft. 1 in.) Otto Graham, onetime Northwestern halfback, was the first man hired. Brown has a ready, if unconventional, explanation for his choice: "He was an All-America basketball player, a playmaker." Instead of flattening his receivers with bullet throws, Graham likes to feather the ball at them. His theory: "Hand it to 'em high, and let 'em run under it." In four years in the old All-America Conference, Graham completed more than 50% of his passes. With 114 completions out of 221 so far this year...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, 41, U.S.-trained (at Fort Leavenworth's Command & General Staff School) head of Venezuela's current military junta; by an assassin's bullet; in Caracas. Through the curious workings of Venezuelan politics, Chalbaud led the 1945 revolution which installed leftish Romulo Gallegos as President, three years later helped overthrow Gallegos, clamped army controls on the country, promised elections (but never got around to them), ruled precariously and without unified support even from the army...
...uniformed private named Leslie Coffelt went down, dying, with bullets in his chest, stomach and legs; Plainclothesman Joseph H. Downs toppled over, shot in the stomach and chest. There was one last cacophony of shots, shouts and tinkling glass. The first gunman, bending over, frantically trying to reload, was hit and sprawled out, hat awry, heels kicking; the second lurched backward over a low boxwood hedge, stone dead with a bullet through his ears...
...head out the window and then they'd take another shot at him." Some of the photographers, who had arrived too late for good shots, had to resort to such hoary stunts as posing reporters pointing to a picket in the fence that had been sheared by a bullet (see cut). Three hours later, the Secret Service finally straightened out the facts at a conference with White House reporters. Next day, at the President's regular conference, New York Daily News Reporter Jack Doherty tossed up a question. Would the President, like Franklin Roosevelt,* give his own account...