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Winston Churchill, last in Cuba as an impetuous young lieutenant taking a first excited peek at a shooting war, returned after 51 years of a roving commission. In 1895 he had ridden (as an observer) with a Spanish column pursuing Cuban rebels through the bullet-buzzing jungle; now he rode in a motorcade through Havana streets choked with Churchill-cheering crowds. He lunched with the President, gave the V-sign from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given...
...townspeople of Fulton, Mo. (pop. 8,297) say there is no stopping "Bullet" McCluer. Short, jut-jawed, and effervescent, Franc Lewis McCluer has spent most of his 49 years in Fulton, as an undergraduate (class of '16), professor, and (for the past 13 years) president of tiny Presbyterian Westminster College. Bullet McCluer is a whirlwind of energy and salesmanship who earned his nickname, as an undergraduate, from the machine-gun force of his debating...
Last week the townspeople of Fulton agreed that never had Bullet shot so high, or rung the bell such a bong. For the college's annual Green Foundation lecture, supposed to be delivered by a bigwig "of international reputation," Bullet McCluer boldly went after really big game. He confided in Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, military aide to Harry Truman, a star football center at Westminster when Bullet was a star debater. Vaughan took him in to see the President. Look, said Bullet, talking fast, what a great idea it would be-especially at Fulton, in the heart...
...skill in presenting a cunning, brutal murder as an act of justice. The love story fails because Joan, an unpleasant character at best, is never quite real. When she is accidentally shot by her third or fourth lover, Ravic prepares to operate on her. Then he finds that the bullet has shattered a vertebra. No operation is possible. His skill, which has saved so many lives that mean little to him, can do nothing for Joan, who means much to him. Joan dies the day the Germans invade Poland, and the world, like a blob of soggy ice cream oozing...
...such as the Gestapo and SS, but also the then-aristocratic High Command. At one time the Army had ordered executions speeded up because of a food and housing shortage on the eastern front. The secret shooting of recaptured P.O.W.s had been given the professional military label of "operation bullet...