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...wife's mother, Grace Fortescue, a woman of good connections and considerable gentility, the lieutenant decided to speed up the clock of the law. Two Navy enlisted men, Albert Jones and Edward Lord, were "deputized" as his assistants. One of the defendants, Joe Kahahawai, an amateur boxer, was enticed to Mrs. Fortescue's rented home with a phony police summons and shot to death. Mrs. Fortescue, Massie and one of the Navy ratings were caught hauling Kahahawai's body away for disposal...
...that the lower animals have as sophisticated a morality as man and can practice the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number; that victory in the jungle goes to the righteous rather than to the strong (the territorial defender almost without exception vanquishes the attacker); that the boxer obsessively dabbing at his nose may be doing so in an unconscious effort to avoid killing his opponent...
Died. Calvin P. Titus, 86, Congressional Medal of Honor winner during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China who, as an infantry bugler, scaled the 30-ft. Peking wall in a hail of bullets to lead his pinned-down regiment to the rescue of U.S. and European citizens; after a stroke; in San Fernando, Calif...
Soup du Jour. Before Kinging himself, the kid from Brooklyn jumped from dropout to drummer to boxer to dancer. By the time he settled on his name and his occupation, there was nowhere to go but up to the Catskills, where the jokes, like the soup du jour, are always borscht. Notwithstanding the ethnic limitations of comic performance in the borscht belt, King kept plugging, waited to be discovered...
Daily Coiffure. Raised in Augusta, Ga., Brown trained to be a boxer before he went on the road to sing gospel-derived songs. Now 34, he has assumed all the trappings of his self-proclaimed role as "the biggest Negro cat in show business right now." He is attended by two hairdressers who give him a daily coiffure, sleeps in a round bed, owns a fire-engine-red Sting Ray and a brace of Cadillacs. For his show, he writes his own songs, does all the arranging, choreography and costume designing (including his own wardrobe of 150 suits...