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After the bloody election-day revolution of G.I. veterans had swept him out of office (circuit court clerk) last year (TIME, Aug. 12, 1946), Ivins tried to grab control of what was left of the discredited Democratic machine. Last April he was blocked from election as county Democratic chairman by a faction led by one Lake Dunn and his nephews, King and Charles Dunn. A few nights later, on Etowah's main street, Burkett Ivins shot and killed his eighth man : ailing, limping, unarmed Charles Dunn. At his trial, Ivins swore that Dunn had threatened to beat his brains...
Pound of Abuse. The Literary Gazette, Pravda and Izvestia all published anti-Marshall cartoons. They all took the party line of previous Izvestia cartoons that Uncle Sam, egged on by Wall Street and the press, was trying to grab the world...
Arriving at 11:11 o'clock this morning, the eleven will indulge in a light, pregame workout in the University of Virginia Stadium this afternoon. Tonight they will be quartered in the Monticello Hotel and Pugh House and tomorrow night at 8:40 o'clock will grab a Boston-bound train out of Charlottesville...
Suggestion. In Bettendorf, Iowa, Used-Car Dealer C. W. Boughton stuck a sign on one of his autos: "Grab It Now!" Cops were soon hunting the thief who did exactly that...
...LaFlamme and his trained moose, won gewgaws at ring games, rode the ferris wheel, played bingo. When they were too frazzled and footsore to walk another step, they plunked down $3 for a seat at the Olsen & Johnson show, or ate at one of the 16 restaurants and 75 "grab joints" on the exhibition grounds...