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...sworn enemy of the church and kept up a running brawl with the priest. Peppone, a tough and able Communist who hadn't made his confession since 1918, set up trials for Don Camillo that ranged from swiping his clothes while he was in swimming to a clout on the head with a heavy stick...
Wrapping up the major leagues at the midseason mark, and taking a hefty clout at the rabbit-ball fanciers, New York Herald Tribune Columnist Red Smith had a ready explanation for the 1950 rash of home runs and high-scoring ball games: ". . . The real fault is not the lively ball but the deadly pitching...
...Wall Street explosion of an anarchist bomb. But The Golden Twenties mostly concentrates on the high, wide & handsome aspects of the Jazz Age-Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath while Lind bergh flew the Atlantic, Gertrude Ederle swam the Channel, and miners tunneled in vain to save Floyd Collins from a Ken tucky cave...
...Lisha could not abide Rome. When a cousin asked Bridie to marry him, she agreed to "turn" Protestant, and Aunt Lisha, delighted, left her everything when she died. But then came Catholic Aunt Rose Anne to invoke the wrath of the church, curse her roundly and give her a clout besides. Poor, sweet, ignorant Bridie, half demented by repeated bouts of intolerance, rushed wildly out of the house, was found dead in a boghole next...
Sportwriters knocked themselves out thinking up new names and superlatives for him: The Sultan of Swat, the Bambino, The Colossus of Clout. He didn't need all that; he was color itself-a fellow built on heroic, swaggering lines, an enormous head on a barrel of a body...