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...Goldie Hawn, 22, a former chorus girl from Tacoma Park, Md., is the resident dumdum who takes all the verbal pratfalls. In the thick of quick exchanges, she will giggle, shake her haystack pile of blonde hair and say in a little meowing voice: "I forgot the question." At first, her fluffs were a case of misreading the cue cards. Now they are part of the act, as when she bites her lip and chirps: "I don't like Viet Cong because in the movie he nearly wrecked the Empire State Building...
...critic. But when the police guns mowed down hundreds of unarmed blacks at Sharpeville in March, Bishop Reeves rushed to the hospital to interview the wounded and inspect the dead, publicly announced he had evidence that many had been shot in the back, even accused the cops of using dumdum bullets. The government decided that Bishop Reeves had 'become a threat to its security. Tipped off that his arrest was imminent, the bishop slipped away to England* to tell his story rather than be silenced by the walls of a jail...
Jerome Kern wrote Ta-ta dumdum, Ta ta-ta dumdum...
...March 15 cover of TIME shows four bullets with "Dum Du Dum Dum" written over them to represent the classic Dragnet theme. If these were drawn, as I suspect, to represent dumdum bullets, I credit the artist, Boris Chaliapin, with the finest pun TIME has made in quite a while...
...threw flames at prisoners, or burned them alive with scorching air. The asbestos walls bore the imprints of the palms of men, women and children who had tried to escape. Near the sheds were poles to which prisoners had been bound by the neck, then shot with flesh-gouging dumdum bullets...