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...MATT URBAN, 75, World War II hero; in Holland, Michigan. Urban's World War II exploits across the European theater ultimately earned him more combat decorations than any other soldier in American history, including the Medal of Honor and seven Purple Hearts for wounds received in combat, like the bullet that tore out a vocal cord and left him raspy-voiced to the end of his days. He led a milder civilian life as a recreation director...
...ORLEANS AUTHORITIES TELL THIS story. On Saturday, March 4, at 1:50 a.m., police officer Antoinette Frank, 23, entered a Vietnamese restaurant in eastern New Orleans to commit robbery and murder. She put a bullet into the head of the security guard-her sometime police partner Ronald Williams, who was off-duty. She then executed the son and daughter of the restaurant's immigrant owners; the girl was kneeling in prayer when she died. Frank fled with an accomplice in a battered Toyota. She returned later in a patrol car, ostensibly in response to emergency calls on her police radio...
...radio started buzzing-SHOOT-OUT IN THE SQUARE. Stop the presses! (Actually they weren't running, but we had to change the whole layout of the paper). I grabbed my camera and took pictures of the smashed Bay Bank window and another of a police officer pointing to a bullet lodged in a mailbox. I was especially impressed by the officers' respect for jurisdiction as they waited for the Postal Service police to come get the mailbox before prying out the bullet...
...badge, which has a bullet hole through itand the word "BOSS" written across it, had beengiven to him by another dean when McArthur startedhis...
Sometimes Smith has to improvise. When a Canadian artist's work was impounded by customs, he had to negotiate its release with frantic phone calls. "Every week I feel I've dodged a bullet," he says. Last month he had to dodge a blizzard. A picture arriving late from Los Angeles was grounded by snow in Chicago. It made it into the building at 7 p.m. Saturday, barely beating our final deadline. To do this week's painting of the O.J. Simpson trial, Smith chose Jon Ellis, whose vivid style lends itself to the circus motif-and who delivered...