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Nobody paid the slightest attention. A swarthy young (30) Communist from Sicily, Luigi di Mauro, slipped through the melee, cocked his fist, was set to throw a haymaker against Italy's motionless Premier when another huge fist, belonging to Labor Minister Achille Marazza, appeared from nowhere and knocked him flat. In frustrated rage, Comrade Di Mauro bit Marazza's thumb to the bone. Meanwhile, Comrade Togliatti had prudently retreated to the corridor...
...Roxbury, has been cleaning up in recent Maine shows but evidently he tightened up the other day. When a pug in being exhibited, he's supposed to curl up his tall and according to the woman from West Roxbury, "That follow can make his tall as tight as my fist; but I can't imagine what happened to him yesterday, why, it he'd just lot it hang it wouldn't have been so conspicuous, but he stuck it right out straight, like a pointer...
...Hollywood version of a Mississippi River gambler-a moody and monolithic male with a dark, Civil War mustache, a cold and acquisitive eye, and a brawler's shoulder-swinging walk. He affects dark glasses, wears a diamond ring as big as a dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman's uninhibited propensity for barroom fights...
...Chicago, the Santa of the merchants' State Street Council was paraded on a float into Soldier Field between the halves of a professional football game. A group of jeering teenagers began to pelt him with snowballs, hit him squarely in the face. As Santa exited, angrily shaking his fist, he moaned: "There's a dead spot in my popularity-I just found...
...Moors Hall freshman termed Dean Crowe's statement "preposterous!" She admitted, however, that she "had never dressed so messily in all my life before coming to Radcliffe," but aware that "my morals are the same as they were." She allowed that she had purchased her fist pair of sneakers yesterday, but was afraid that "they would look too sloppy any place but at Radcliffe...