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Testimonial. In Islington. Australia, grateful Frances Devereux refused to prosecute James Ford for bashing her in the head with an ax, explained to reporters that the blow had cured her insomnia and improved her appetite...
Like others caught in the middle, Lyuh did a lot of shilly-shallying. His enemies called him "The Silver Ax"-he looked fine, but he would not cut. He thought Korea could be unified without violence, "unless we let the extreme rights and lefts play...
Charges against Chen were many and grievous. When the Government general heard the story of the old woman who had been beheaded on Chen's order, he cried, "Really, it's hard to be kind to such people. We must make an example!" No heavy sword or ax could be found. A bayonet was considered, then rejected. Finally a heavy, short-bladed sickle, used to harvest wheat, was fashioned into an executioner's tool. While fellow informers watched, Hunchback Chen's head was hacked...
Hero with an Ax. Bleeding and burned, Baldwin managed to open the cockpit escape hatch, dropped to the ground, staggered dazedly away. Rain began streaming down as the flames soared up in 50-ft. tongues. Baldwin started back-there were 47 people inside-and was held back by the gathering crowd. Firemen drove a fire engine through a wooden fence, attacked the fire. Then the hero of the crash-a 38-year-old New Yorker named Edward McGrath-arrived. He grabbed an ax, waded into the furnace heat, chopped a hole in the broken plane's duraluminum skin...
...friends temper this estimate. Bernard Baruch, who has known Billy for 30 years, says solemnly: "This man, small in stature, is big and broad and fine in his viewpoints." Author Ben Hecht admits that "Billy has a genius for not making friends" and is "as wistful as a meat ax"; but he is also "a kind of frustrated poet . . . a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into...