Word: dueling
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Because Crosby, a Yankee, lazily, dislikes gunplay, he declines to duel with a Southern blackguard. In the next few minutes he loses his fiancee, excites the love of her sister (Joan Bennett), is summarily ousted from the plantation of their father. He joins a show boat run by Fields, a Mississippi River commodore who claims to have been an oldtime Indian fighter. When Crosby succeeds in publicly mauling and accidentally shooting a bully, Fields improvises a few lies, turns the crooner into "The Notorious Col. Steele, the Singing Killer...
Jimmy Gilhula, captain of the University of Southern California swimming team and the other half of the rivalry, will arrive in Cambridge today and will likewise swim in the pool to get accustomed to the Harvard surroundings for the duel in the nationals...
...AMAZING MADAME JUMEL-William Gary Duncan-Stokes ($3). The career of the Providence streetwalker who became Mrs. Aaron Burr, caused the duel between Burr and Alexander Hamilton...
...most exciting contest was that in which Richard W. Gilder '36 bested John G. Cornish '33 in a five game sidewall backhand speed duel...
Consolidated also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...