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...Dante condemns the lukewarm, those "miserable souls . . . whom infamy and honor both forgot," to wander in a no man's land beyond the outer circle of hell...
...enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor...
...Hell, no, that's the wrong idea!" boomed Rafael Cheviot Schmegegghi, professor of Obstetrics, when he heard that the phenomenon was to take place at the beginning of the Jubilee weekend...
Andy ("The Greek") Varipapa is a powerful, stubby little man, and his own warmest admirer. Says he: "Hell with that blushing violet stuff." Varipapa, is, and admits it, the world's greatest bowler...
...capital city of these poverty-stricken Italians, who lived on an unvarying diet of black bread, garlic, olives, peppers, tomatoes. In 1935, while 1,200 Gaglianoese lived in Gagliano, 2,000 were living in New York. America was simultaneously the Promised Land and a steel-and-concrete hell; it was the prison house of cruel labor from which came marvelous scissors, razors, blue-bladed axes and dollar bills-the rich wasteland into which Gagliano's sons and husbands often disappeared without a trace, or died of exhaustion, comfortless and forgotten...