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...well as of Kentucky. Meanwhile, San Francisco's Dons, also an unheralded lot, had beaten Manhattan (68-43), Utah (64-63) and Bowling Green (49-39)Towels & Value. On the night of the finals, 18,297 crowded into the Garden, hoping for a scoring duel between brawny, 6-ft.-6-in. Jack Kerris of Loyola and skinny, 6-ft.-6-in. Don Lofgran of the Dons. Loyola had brought a large cheering section from Chicago. The San Francisco delegation, led by stocky Mayor Elmer E. Robinson, was much smaller; but at the last minute several hundred Bowling Green rooters...
...have thought. What fooled them, she concludes, was his bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery elm (still used in lozenges for sore throat). He kept the arm, but later developed osteomyelitis (stubborn infection of the bone). The infections from the bullets, Diagnostician...
...Good Spanking. Well before wrathful Sancho's ultimatum expired, Serrano penned him an abject note of apology: "I confirm all my profound esteem of you as a founder of the Falange and as a man." Honor satisfied and the duel off, Sancho still growled: "Serrano talks too much. He will step on my feet again. Next time I will not send friends. I will call on him myself ... I was not after a letter of apology or a duel. We do not fight duels any more in Spain. What I wanted was a good solid pretext to give Serrano...
...Mexico City, surprised Author Chavez commented: "Sancho Davila should really challenge Hitler to a duel, if alive, or if dead, look for his soul, wherever...
...next 24 hours, all Madrid, titillated by the looming duel of honor, hunted up copies of Press Mission in Spain. Though banned, it could be bought in the black market at 500 pesetas ($20) a copy. The price was steep but rewarding. Serrano Suñer had passed on to the book's author, Journalist Armando Chavez Camacho of Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered...