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Then police got their orders. Mounted cops charged the crowd; pistols were fired over heads. By nightfall, more than 100 men lay in Puerta del Sol's damp cells...
...England, fox hunting is a ready-made pastime. The tidy, trim fields and meadows offer running space for hound and horse, arid tricky as the fox is, he cannot disguise his scent, which hangs heavy in England's damp countryside. Transplanted to the U.S., the sport has become even sportier-for the fox-as was demonstrated last week at Fort Campbell, Ky., where some 700 hunters and 300 hounds gathered for the 60th National Fox Hunters' Association Field Trials. The 100,000-acre military reservation was tinder-dry with just 3 in. of rain since June; though both...
...with $165,000 for theatrical charities. It was really Sophie's 49th year in show business, but, as she happily explained in her rain-barrel bass: "Honey, I'm all booked up next year; there wouldn't have been time then." The air was damp with sentiment as a succession of old friends and fans, e.g., General James Van Fleet, Ralph Bunche, Tallulah Bankhead, George Jessel, Millon...
Back with the team yesterday was fullback Bill Volmer, who was injured slightly in Tuesday's damp workout...
...cold hole for two days. Pfc. Joe Allen told of a "pro" who reported him when he tried to escape with a buddy. The guards picked them up. Allen signed a confession, but his fellow escapee decided to hold out for a while. The Chinese put him in a damp cellar. Said Allen: "A few days later they carried him out of the camp. He was dead, and he had blood around his mouth. The Chinese told us that the rats in the cellar got at him. But I was in that place and there were no rats there...