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Bulky, hard-mouthed Bernie Shelton,-50, youngest and meanest of the ill-famed Shelton boys, fell. He was dead in half an hour. His 59-year-old brother Carl-a big, amiable murderer, who carried a red bandanna and dressed like a hayseed-had been ambushed and killed by a machine-gunner last fall. Of the three brothers who had held Southern Illinois in fief during the noisy years of Prohibition, only Earl, grey-haired and bitter-mouthed, was left...
...miracle!" cried someone in the crowd. A toothless, middle-aged woman, dressed in black save for a gay bandanna around her head, came hobbling down the street. "For two years I have not been able to walk," she cried. "I was carried to the Father. Now look at me. I'm walking. Viva Padre Antonio." Those who followed her joined in a throaty "Viva." Then she shouted: "Viva our Lady of Grace," and the crowd chorused. Two women with her wept. Men doffed their hats as she moved slowly past...
Unlovable Evan L. Evans-who always wore a dirty straw hat and a bandanna, even when he drove in one of his Rolls-Royces-is the principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike...
...once put an ad in a newspaper: "Wanted: young man to become Heavyweight Champion of the World." The best of the applicants was a nondescript Welshman, who with the help of Johnston's imagination and a dime-store bandanna emerged as Gypsy Daniels, eldest son of a gypsy king who lived at the foot of Rhondda Mountain in Wales. Jimmy also wowed New York's Chinatown with Ah Wong, a "Chinese lightweight" whose real name was Mickey Mulligan...
Nannie, born into slavery, had lived all her life with Grandmother Sophia Jane. At 85 she retired to a little cabin, wrapped a blue bandanna about her head, smoked a corncob for the first time and thought about the 13 children she had borne (eleven had died). Sometimes she worried over what God would say when he saw her black skin. "Nonsense!" snapped Grand mother Sophia Jane. "He sees only souls. . . . Of course you're going to Heaven...