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...August afternoon in 1938, two brothers named Lewis and Lee Combs went to a political meeting in Breathitt County. Sheriff Walter Deaton, who was with them, stayed downstairs while the Combs boys went up to the meeting room. The Sheriff heard shots, got pinked in the left forearm. Down the stairs tumbled the Combs boys. Lewis was wounded in the back with a .45; Lee was dying. Five men, including Cousin (and county jailer) William Combs, a State Senator and the circuit court clerk were arrested, all were cleared...
...Angel took on his first comer, Luigi Bacigalupi, 275-lbs. ringside. In the Boston Arena, 7,000 wrestling fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference, hooked his stubby broomstick fingers behind, squeezed...
...Irvington, N.J., Police Judge Thomas J. Holleran let off with a lecture on "Americanism" two teen-age boys, one of German, the other of Italian descent, who vented their political passions by pen-knifing a swastika on the left forearm of Bernard Cohen...
...Caspar Wistar* of the University of Pennsylvania, had left an anatomical collection. This was the nucleus of the Wistar Institute and Isaac wanted to see it properly housed. When he died in 1905 he had given the Institute $1,000,000, as well as his brain, his crippled right forearm and hand, including the fingernails ("a desirable specimen of gunshot ankylosis"), his bloody Civil War sword which he preferred never to have cleaned, and several other relics including his baby caps and snuffboxes...
...writing." But writing under his own name Mr. Hoffman later accused Mr. Atlas of being "The World's Greatest Fakir." Mr. Atlas, roared Mr. Hoffman in his Strength & Health, "does not have a 17-in. bicep as he claims. He does not have a 14½in. forearm. He does not have a 47-in. chest. He cannot pull six autos with his teeth. He cannot lift 250 Ib. above his head five or six times without straining. . . .I defy him to carry 500 Ib. five or six blocks or one block with or without straining. He cannot...