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...having sped by on their bicycles-gathered to hear the candidate for the grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin, 65, the "Blacksmith of Ballinalee," the man who in the Great Trouble "refused to have an anesthetic while having an English bullet removed from his body for fear that while unconscious he might betray his comrades," had all the proper credentials for Irish politics. But the fact remained: he was running against the Long Fellow himself...
Died. George Reeves, 45, TV's bullet-defying Superman; by his own hand (gunshot); in Beverly Hills, Calif. Though in private life Reeves resembled prissy Clark Kent more than Superman, he gloried in the role, kept in shape with bar bells beside his bed, but when Superman turned into reruns (1957) he was too closely identified with his extrahuman role to get a normal, worldly...
...basic course in the U.S. Navy's hospital school, ten months as a hospital orderly in Boston, amplified by voracious reading of medical texts. Nevertheless, when assigned to Korean waters aboard the destroyer Cayuga, he performed such prodigies of battle surgery -an emergency amputation, the extraction of a bullet from the heart sac itself -that Cyr's story was published in Canadian newspapers. The real Dr. Cyr heard about...
...death in 1891, dozens of adventurers carrying creased, crude maps have gone after the treasure. None of them found it, but more than 30 died trying. In 1931 a retired Government worker set out for Lost Dutchman's. Months later, his bleached skull was found, pierced by a bullet hole. A miner named Williamson, another named Lamb, a magazine writer named Scuelebtz, all followed maps into the Superstition Mountain fastness-and were never seen again. Only two years ago a prospector left his campsite in the middle of a meal and disappeared forever...
...trial, Captain Proctor, a police ballistics expert, would go no farther than to say of the death bullet: "My opinion is that it is consistent with being fired by that (Sacco's) pistol." In a subsequent affidavit, Proctor stated: "At no time was I able to find any evidence whatever which tended to convince me that the particular model bullet found in Berardelli's body, which came from a Colt Automatic pistol, which I think was numbered 3 and had some other exhibit number, came from Sacco's pistol, and I so informed the District Attorney and his assistant before...