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Yale Saturday dawned murkily and Hubert struggled free of the tangled bedclothes, leaving a trail of sheets and blankets leading toward the john. Therein he groped for the drinking glass, but remembered that his roommate had dropped it the day before. He noticed blood pumping from a deep gash in his foot. He somehow got the shaving cream can backwards, and squirted his eye, dropped his pajama bottoms in surprise, lost his balance, and fell into the shower...
...hang onto his camera until guardsmen took him into protective custody. Two days later a 19-year-old prisoner-one of 15 mobsters arrested at Oliver Springs-sprang suddenly between two carbine-carrying guardsmen, knocked Corn down and slugged and kicked him. Two stitches were taken to close a gash in Corn's face...
Fellow workers in the Nairobi office of East African Railways were surprised to learn that quiet, spectacled Walter Gash, a timetable checker, had won an M.B.E. ( Member of the Order of the British Empire) for pioneering this kind of warfare. Linking up with Mau Mau gangs, but staying in the background ("My phony Kikuyu accent would have given me away"), Gash gathered intelligence information, then would suddenly fling aside his rags and open fire with a submachine gun. "It was a case of kill or be killed in the forest," said Gash. Another operator working with the Pseudos was William...
Miss Albright, the current world champion, competes in the school figures today, and will perform the free figures Thursday. The leg gash which she suffered in practice has apparently healed well, and to the beginning of competition today...
...elephant wheeled and bolted. The rhino charged, snorting in the elephant's wake and trying to gore him with her 24-in. horn. Talbot watched from the rumble seat as the rhino drew alongside the elephant and ripped an 18-in. gash in his side. Then the two animals veered apart as if on diverging rails. "I suppose " says Talbot, "that mama went back to her baby and told him: That's how it's done...