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...York, in Washington, in San Juan, Government agents began a high-pressure investigation of the weird assassination plot. Government agents roused by teletype combed Manhattan's Spanish Harlem; they picked up a covey of Puerto Rican Nationalists, arrested the wives of the two gunmen. Both women were dry-eyed and defiant. Cried Rosa Collazo to her three daughters: "Hold up your heads. Don't be ashamed...
...ribbons on the antlers of his pet deer, explained: "Without these, all of 'em would shoot at him; with these not more'n ten dudes'll kill him at the same time." Seasoned huntsmen worried about "sound-shots." Explained one: "A sound-shot is a weird guessing game invented by city men. They hear something in the brush and shoot. Then they look to see what they got. It's just as apt to be their old lady as an animal...
LEOPOLDVILLE, Belgian Congo (Oct. 24)--In this weird land of drumbeat and mamba, chances still appear slim for finding a replacement seer before Saturday...
...freezing December night in 1928, a weird-looking little monoplane called "the Doodlebug" took off from a Milwaukee airfield and headed hopefully in the general direction of New York City. Designer-Pilot James S. McDonnell Jr., then 29, hoped to make aviation history by a daring night flight. Ha also hoped to prove that his plane was the safest in the air, thus get enough orders to start manufacturing the air "flivver." But he had scarcely cleared Milwaukee before the engine began flying apart. By a well-executed dead-stick landing in a farmer's field Pilot McDonnell saved...
This wild burlesque of English literary life is the best thing in A Fearful Joy. Gary trots out a weird but wholly likable crew of eccentrics and fakes: the rich "angel" who is afraid of being taken in and afraid of being left out; the lazy sponger with an uncanny eye for the latest thing in letters who privately believes that modern writing is "so rotten that it may be good, in a rotten way"; the scraggly poet with "a thin virgin beard" who preaches that "the true decadent has no modesty...