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...Manhattan newspaper offices, telephones began jangling crazily. Angry voices wanted to know if the terrible rumor was true. It was. One choked-up caller exploded: "Geez, it's Poil Hobba for the Giants." Said another: "O.K., send a photographer down to Brooklyn Bridge in 20 minutes. I'm jumping...
...Sunday Skip Stahley, coach at George Washington and a former Harlow assistant, dropped into Cambridge to visit friends, but apparently left town the next day. Biff Glassford, New Hampshire mentor, was the next caller. He too left for the hills after a short conference with Bingham...
Perhaps his most important caller was Minneapolis' cocky, fast-talking Democratic Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey, who is thinking of running for the Senate against Joe Ball but would not mind ending up as Harry Truman's running mate. He said that the President should get out and show himself to the people...
France Dimanche is Paris' liveliest and yellowest weekly (in a field of 270). And it has one of the hottest-tempered editors -by name Max Corre. A reader once tried to see Editor Corre when he was too busy to be seen. When the caller just stood there, the editor screamed, "Go away!" then knocked him cold. Staffers dragged the limp form to an elevator; Editor Max Corre shrugged, muttered, and went on with his work...
Meanwhile Ricci had gone to fetch a couple of bottles of Chianti to give his caller as a Christmas present. He entered the study carrying the wine. Capocci brusquely announced he wanted to demonstrate a new invention, produced a large pair of tailor's scissors. He took them apart and challenged Ricci to a duel. He handed the blunt part of the scissors to the Minister and said: "I take it that as a gentleman you choose this...