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...time Mayor Angelo Rossi appeared, listened to the arguments and promptly cast his vote in favor of the statue. Out in the corridor an excited crowd almost mobbed Sculptor Beniamino Bufano. "Good old Benny!" they shouted. "The statue wins!" Artist Bufano, who chopped off his trigger ringer during the War, frequently sleeps in his clothes, and lives almost exclusively on nuts, is a sculptor of un questioned ability who has had a burning ambition to give San Francisco a heroic statue of her patron saint...
...Siberia, did not realize he was banished till several years had gone by without his recall. He passed his days as usual, kept in duelling trim by shooting patterns on his bedroom wall with wax bullets, by twirling a heavy iron cane wherever he went, to strengthen his trigger hand. And he wrote verse: pornographic, blasphemous, lyric, political, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse form. Once, as a punishment for some escapade, Pushkin was sent off to inspect a locust-ravaged district, write a report on conditions there. He wrote two. The unofficial...
...Constitution be interpreted according to the New Deal's way of thinking, there is little likelihood of Congress doing anything rash about it until the President gives the signal. Off the calendar, however, does not mean out of mind. Any mention of the Constitution has become a trigger to set off a discharge of senatorial oratory. Last week an unreconstructed Democrat carelessly pulled the trigger...
...audience, having arranged as a tacit persuader Eddie's doomed and breath-taking flight toward the Canadian border with his wife, Joan (Sylvia Sidney). Justice works out a satisfactory answer, even though the trooper who marks Eddie with the cross hairs of his telescope sight, never pulls the trigger...
Divorced. Mrs. Gertrude Reigel Zacchini, 27; by Bruno Zacchini, 35, brother of and trigger man for Human Cannonballs Hugo & Mario Zacchini in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus; in Tampa, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty, constant nagging which caused him to lose 20 lb. Said he: "I don't feel like working and my brain does not work. . . . If I do not think clearly, I am apt to kill my brothers...