Word: smashers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When debonair Count Guido Chigi-Saracini was a young music student in Florence, his teachers called him "the piano smasher." Often enough, when he came to a difficult passage, he could only bang his fists down on the keyboard in frustration and rage. After a try at composing, with little more success, he decided to take his music at one remove, pay for it rather than make it himself.' Today, after 40 years of footing bills, 70-year-old Count Chigi-Saracini has a good claim to the title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim...
Jack Grant was watching closely from the gate when a cargo loader banged his yellow bag against the airplane hatch. The baggage smasher dropped it in horror as it began to spout flames. White-coveralled mechanics and loaders converged with foaming CO2 bottles, put the fire out before the gasoline could catch. By that time, Grant had thrust the insurance receipts into Betty's hands, blurted something that sounded like "I'm going to be arrested! I'm going to jail for sure," and fled...