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Oswald replied, "Help, ho, murder, murder," but it wasn't even suicide. Temple finished the performance after a quick patch from a doctor in the audience and then went to the hospital for six stitches...
...recently implied that the H-bomb was part of a Democratic plot to wipe out civilization. Jenner's political vision is too myopic to win him classification even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial junket last year (with a senatorial subcommittee of which he was not even a member) that a Washington correspondent began his story: "Senator...
Whoop for War. Young Calhoun was something of a prig. When" his admiring brothers persuaded him to give up farming and sent him to college at 20, he worked as hard at Yale as if he were plowing a rocky patch of land. To the frequent ridicule of his fellow students, he would reply that he studied hard "in order that he might acquit himself creditably when he should become a member of Congress...
Roving Tackle. Despite illness and poverty, the boy developed into a big, cold-eyed, hard-fisted youngster who burned with a desire to make the world notice Glenn McCarthy. In Houston's San Jacinto High School he began to succeed-he often came to school with a patch on his pants but he was a football hero and a successful fighter at Saturday-night dances. Girls were enthralled...
Cashier Lloyd loosed his bonds in a few minutes and called Boston police. The first officers arrived in two minutes. The clues were thin-one of the robbers' caps, the rope used to tie the clerks, a fingerprint on a patch of adhesive tape. The holdup men had casually walked through five doorways, at least three of them locked and one supposedly guarded by a watchman behind bulletproofed windows. (It was his night off, police explained later.) The robbers were either very lucky, or had inside help, or both...