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...Mexico. Now there were 1,500 Legionnaires in Indo-China ready to die for Strongpoint Isabelle. They were commanded by Colonel André Lalande from St. Cyr Military Academy, veteran of Narvik, El Alamein, Italy and the Vosges. Lalande was a tough customer: his Legionnaires called him "baroudeur," a brawler. Lalande did not wait for the Communists to come, 20 to 1, to get him. At 0115, he ordered the charge...
Caravaggio's career was as brief as it was spectacular. A notorious brawler, he eventually stabbed and killed a crony in a dispute over a tennis score, and had to flee Rome. He found refuge at Malta, where he painted a portrait of the Grand Master and was rewarded with a knighthood. But then he assaulted a fellow knight and was imprisoned. He escaped, made his way to Tuscany, was arrested for a crime he had not committed. Soon afterward, he died of fever. He was then...
...smart-money boys only snickered. When Paddy climbed into the Madison Square Garden ring with Carter last week they were betting 4 to 1 that he was still a billygoat from Brooklyn, a clumsy, light-punching brawler who had won a couple of big fights by butting, bunny-hugging and hitting on the breaks. Champion Carter, a Negro from The Bronx, was an old pro, too good, and too smart to be taken when his title was on the line...
Back in the Mussolini era, Carlo Corbisiero, part-time barber, brawler and bully boy of the village of Marzano di Nola, near Naples, was pretty proud of his nickname-"Crackshot." For years the local carabinieri had tried to nail him for bootlegging, petty theft and antiFascism, without success. Then one day in 1934, word reached the village that Crackshot Carlo was wanted on a highway robbery and murder rap. Carlo left his dark-eyed mistress and their two illegitimate children behind and took to the hills. Two weeks later he decided to give himself up for trial. "I am innocent...
...given a good deal of help it must be admitted by a Husky team which cut hustled the Crimson most of the way, and especially by a hand fittings defenseman and brawler need 1 cute McNamara. The Crimson played well; the Huskies often played better...