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Candy From Babies. In Pittsburgh, as Patrolman Jim Harvey crossed a sidewalk trap door he felt it start to rise, stepped aside, beheld two men ascending in state with $840 in swag, promptly nabbed them. In Oklahoma City, Autoist Russell B. Smith, stopped by two would-be robbers, scared them off by barking at his dashboard receiving set: "Calling all cars, reporting robbery at 37th and Classen...
Weeks went by while he mercilessly pounded his army into shape. In London and Washington the High Command conferred. Egypt must beheld. Supplies poured in to the Eighth. On Oct. 23 Montgomery attacked...
...Place Like Home. In Hannibal, N.Y., Orin Draper came back empty-handed from a six-day hunting trip, stepped into his backyard to clean his gun, beheld a seven-point buck, bagged...
...ring four years, hard little Barney Ross, 32, was still all right in defense and attack, and his footwork was wonderful. He was a Marine private on Guadalcanal. In the jungle at about sundown, Private Ross looked up and beheld an advance guard of Japs approaching. "They got no more than ten yards away," he said later, "and everybody started firing and scattering." Ross got two wounded men into a shell hole and dived into a six-foot crater. Three other men joined him, one of them wounded in the knee. The prize fighter started throwing grenades...
...life are allowed to interfere only slightly in Pugilist Flynn's career, but fans will not complain. They can see oldtime titans destroy each other with bare knuckles in gaslit, neolithic exhibitions of carnage-under-contract. Gentleman Jim's footwork is a joy to behold (and is beheld from all camera angles). The pictured versions of his classic bouts with Joe Choynski, Jake Kilrain, et al. seem, to modern eyes, even to improve on the originals...