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Button was placed first by all nine judges. His execution was near perfect, despite a stumble during a difficult flying spin...
...victim's mouth. If he showed signs of collapsing while in their hands, they just kicked him into the ditch. And those who showed signs of resistance, or resisted this procedure-then the guard would put a gun to his head . . . and he shot him. Then he would spin him around and throw him in the ditch...
Authors Dee Brown and Martin Schmitt spin plenty of such robust yarns in Trail Driving Days, and for added flavor and authenticity they pack in 229 portraits and illustrations. Some of the stories they tell have been told before, but seldom if ever have so many good ones been strung together, with honest-looking pictures. The result is a book that takes the old West away from the spurious westerns and gives it back to the real cowmen and bad men. Reality, in the cattle-driving days of 1850-1900, was fully as lively as most of the subsequent fiction...
...rating on the Chart; he then asks an auditor (Dianetics for psychoanalyst) if things are really that bad. According to the tape recorder, "He (the unfortunate) is asking you (the auditor) to say no, and he'll really keep it up until you say yes, and then he'll spin...
...apartment, where they are joined by an amiable but immoral neighbor (played by Hiram Sherman with a fraudulent Southern accent) living in an upstairs suite. From there on the presence of the naive and pure young lady in such worldly surroundings is situation enough for Mr. Herbert to spin a clever and funny play which never sags because of its witty conversation...