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...Rome during the '30s, he became a great friend of Mussolini, tried to keep Italy from joining the Axis. In 1937 he was plunged into a diplomatic scandal when, as he was about to board a train at Paris' Gare du Nord, he was shot in the groin by a French journalist named Madeleine de Fontanges, who claimed that he had ruined her romance with "My Benito" by advising II Duce...
...indicated Grandier as the infester. Soon 16 other nuns, under the vivid suggestion of their prioress' example, found themselves with demon: here Leviathan in the center of a forehead; there, Enemy of the Virgin in the neck; Asmodeus (in Hebraic lore, king of the demons) snuggled in a groin; Concupiscence at home in the left...
...tunic is smeared with blood from the bull's flank, but the crowd calls for more. As Pacote moves in over the bull's horns for the kill, the animal tosses its head up in a last lunge that finds the old pro's groin and belly. The presidente of the bull ring awards Pacote the ears, tail and a hoof; he is able to die proud...
...murdered one woman, wounded four, and thus inspired the recent movie The Sniper (TIME, May 19). But Producer Wanger slept the sound sleep of a man who knew an ordeal was all but ended. Its climax had really come last December when Wanger fired a pistol bullet into the groin of Actors' Agent Jennings Lang, whom Wanger then accused of trying to break up his marriage with Actress Joan Bennett. After Wanger threw himself on the court's mercy, the charge was reduced from assault with intent to murder to assault with a deadly weapon. He thus avoided...
Standing on a table to welcome a contingent of Canadian troops, Boatner advised them not to kill unless absolutely necessary: "If you get into a fight [with a prisoner], slash him, use the butt of your rifle, give him the knee in the groin...