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...bullet in the ground; Terry put his through Broderick's breast. A jury acquitted him of murder, but he was still struggling to rebuild his Stockton law practice when the Civil War broke out. Wounded at Chickamauga, Terry was a Confederate brigadier before the war ended. Afterward he tried sheep and cotton in Mexico, then went back to Stockton for a third try at the Law. As a foe of the moneyed interests, he helped rewrite California's constitution, helped beat George Hearst for Governor in 1882, helped keep U. S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field...
...succumbed to the dueling disease last November after four clerks, two bank managers, two lawyers and a landed proprietor insinuated that he had married his wife Magda "for her money." Black with rage, Dueler Sarga challenged all nine, fought two, wounded one. Round & round Budapest's night clubs afterward staggered Dueler Sarga, quaffing red wine, challenging all and sundry until the list of his opponents numbered "a hundred," so he said...
...days before her seventh birthday, Mary MacArthur made her stage debut unknown to the audience in the last scene of Victoria Regina, when, as Princess Ena of Battenberg, she walked on, spoke no line but curtsied to her mother, Helen Hayes, in the title role. Backstage afterward Actress MacArthur received telegrams, flowers, an unwelcomed reminder that her mother had made her debut...
...those indicted were mere cogs in the political machine. Only one big shot has been subpoenaed-Representative Joe Shannon. He ran one of his own candidates against a Pendergast candidate in the primary as he sometimes does. He complained afterward of "rough stuff, kidnapping, beating of my workers and the worst padding and fraudulent voting I have seen in my long political career." He departed for Washington before a subpoena could be served upon him. Said he: "Sure, I'll return to Kansas City if they want me." But a month went by. Last week he was finally...
After one of the briefest inspections in Westminster history. Judge West waved Spicypiece to the winning stall, did not bother to rank the rest. Said he afterward: "She came as close to perfection as one could ask." For Spicypiece's owner. Broker Stanley J. Halle of Chappaqua, N. Y., her win meant a double distinction. His Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, also a wire-haired terrier but no kin to Spicypiece, took best in show at Westminster in 1934. For young Peter Garvan there was solid consolation...