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...gunman pivoted, shooting. Birdzell, out in the streetcar tracks of Pennsylvania Avenue, turned and began firing back. A bullet hit one of his legs and he sank to one knee. Another bullet hit his good leg. He tumbled forward, and went on banging steadily away with his pistol held braced at arm's length on the pavement before...
...oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
...first soldier, believing an order to fire had been given, also started shooting. Another fan crumpled. Nearby, a woman screamed: "Assassins! Cowards!" She fell with a bullet through her left eye. Before it was over, three persons were dead, eight wounded, dozens injured. The toreros, who had come to Zitácuaro to kill bulls, slipped off quietly to their hotel...
...engineer, he struck up a firm alliance with well-heeled Sewer Contractor Patrick Nash, the other half of the famed Kelly-Nash machine. Chosen mayor by the city council in 1933 to fill the unexpired term of Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin Roosevelt), Kelly became sole Democratic boss of Chicago on Pat Nash's death ("To be a real mayor . . . you've got to be a boss...
Lowoastein has a good arm, but he's not the aerial circus that Clayton is. The Chelmsford flash has a cross-bow right arm and throws beautiful bullet passes. Of course, ends Vince Marriott and John McDonald have been suffering from glue-fingertips but that Clayton--he's a football player's football...