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...sons was sitting there. Marty Daniels, afraid he might hit his brother, passed the rifle to Marksman Ray. "Here," he said, "you do the shooting. You're a better shot than I am." Marty's dad was sitting with his knees up to his chest, and Ray allowed that from that distance (60 ft.), he could hit Daniels any place he wanted. Marty told him to aim so the shot would hit him in the chest. Carefully Ray Edwards aimed the rifle, squeezed the trigger, and shot Martin Daniels Sr. square in the chest. In the resulting confusion...
...squatly in his corner of the bench-not because he was calm but because he was a catcher. As a catcher, he had learned to do his thinking in a crouch. It is a posture that seems to hone the intellect. For catchers, once they have mastered the mask, chest pads and other "tools of ignorance," seem to make the grade as big-league managers almost as consistently as big-time businessmen make the team on Republican Cabinets. The bright tradition runs way back to the late Connie Mack and Roger Bresnahan. And from Mr. Mack on through Gabby Street...
Florida doctors scoffed at Edwards' fear that the drugs might eventually lose their effectiveness. Says Dr. Eugene Flipse, director of the chest unit at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital: "Our relapse rate now is about nine-tenths of i%, which is a fraction of what it used to be when about one out of every three released patients came back." Adds Dr. Roberts Davies, the state TB board's medical director: "I don't know of any informed [medical] opinion that we should keep patients longer than...
...friend (now wife) shock-haired Cinemactress Shelley Winters. "It would not have been seemly to have had my picture taken with Miss Winters. I was still married," Franciosa explained after the fracas. When the prosecutor demanded that he be jailed "for the protection of society," Franciosa rose with his chest heaving. Chewing each word as if it were scenery, he pounded the table and began emoting eight to the bar: "He is saying society has to be protected. This is ridiculous. I am society." Society's sentence: two years' probation, $250 fine, ten days in the pokey...
Small Print. In Tulsa, Ted Cobb, 9, during a tornado alert, hastily scribbled out and taped to his chest a "last will and testament," directing, "I leave everything I own to my friend George Draper Jr., if he isn't blown away first...