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...early evening Albert Clément and his wife left the office of Le Cri du Peuple on the Rue Vivienne and started toward the boulevard. A small bicyclist, standing near by in a dark blue beret and shirt, suddenly pushed his wheel into the Cléments and fired four pistol shots, killing M. Clément and wounding his wife...
Attracting a large crowd of curious onlookers, a lone bicyclist held up traffic on Larz Anderson Bridge yesterday by casually pedaling back and forth five times along the slim rail of the bridge...
...Paris, where the shooting of a German medical officer had brought threats of reprisals if the responsible man was not discovered within 18 days, a bicyclist rode brazenly up to a German major, shot...
...German civilian was savagely beaten up. Pistols suddenly cracked in the streets-at a Nazi sergeant, at a civilian official of the Occupation Army, at a second Nazi noncom. Marcel Gitton, a former Communist deputy who had recently played ball with the Nazis, was shot dead by a young bicyclist in blue jeans and a beret. Despite death sentences threatened for railway sabotage, roundhouse turntables on the Paris-Brittany main line were blown...
They wrote like two sage old Romans from twin centers of the later empire. Their interest was in philosophy, literature, in the arcana of their craft, in their misfortunes and ailments (once Holmes slipped on a piece of ice, again Pollock was struck by a bicyclist), in Washington heat and London fog, in the wonder that returning spring has for aging men. The year the Japanese sank the Russian fleet at Tsushima, Pollock dropped Holmes a postcard: "Certainly I believe you are as real as I am, but, as you are ejusdem generis with me, that does not make...