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...Walter Irvin was not dead. In the hospital, his neck and chest bandaged, a rubber tube in one nostril, Walter Irvin told a different story: "The sheriff and the deputy began talking on the radio a little bit. [The sheriff] told him to go ahead and check and so the deputy sheriff went on a short ways in front of us and says, 'O.K.' . . . The sheriff began to shimmy his wheel and said, 'Something is wrong with my left front tire...
...Pedro Gomez took slugs in his stomach and in one leg, was left to die after a skirmish in which government forces routed Villa. Before he could die however, he was jerked to his feet in front of a firing squad. The bullets which crashed into his chest merely knocked him down. A sergeant's coup de grace only nicked his ear. The sergeant's cursing captain seized the pistol and sent a .38 bullet into Gomez' head at the hairline-but late that night Gomez still lived...
...valuable a property to risk on that jarring job. But he gets his share of lumps and bumps by enduring a series of smashing tackles and pile-ons whenever he runs, by getting knocked flat when he passes or kicks. The big white 42 on Kazmaier's chest and back marks the No. 1 target for every opposing player...
...heavy lunch and was enjoying his usual siesta, le petit Tho, armed with a sledge hammer and a Boy Scout knife, slipped into the air-conditioned bedroom. With one blow of the sledge hammer he smashed the Commissioner's skull. He plunged the knife several times into his chest and spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind him. Downstairs he washed his shirt, took a shower...
...Detroit last week, New Orleans' famed Surgeon Alton Ochsner addressed a gathering of doctors on the recent increase in lung cancer, which he believes is directly traceable to increased smoking. Every pack-a-day smoker over 40 should have a chest X ray every six months, said Ochsner; every pack-a-day man over 50, every three months. Said nonsmoking Dr. Ochsner sadly: "A great many physicians are heavy smokers." Over his attentive doctor-audience, the air was blue with smoke...