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...command post on Jerusalem's anciently named Hill of Evil Counsel, Major General Carlsson von Horn, Swedish chief of staff of the U.N. Palestine Truce Supervision Organization, had just spread a luncheon napkin across his knees when the walkie-talkie telephone began to grunt and gasp. An aide picked it up and took the message: Israelis and Jordanians were shooting at each other in the demilitarized zone on Mount Scopus behind the Mount of Olives...
...bull veered. The 21,000 aficionados packed into Madrid's Plaza Monumental let out a mighty gasp as its right horn slashed into the chest of Antonio Bienvenida, 38, dean of Spain's matadors. Twice, with a savage spasm of his lacerated but still powerful neck muscles, the bull tossed Bienvenida into the air. It was mauling Bienvenida, helpless on the sand, when the peones dashed up to cape the bull away. Instantly, Bienvenida's father and brother called on a husky, hawknosed six-footer, still dark-haired despite his 67 years: Dr. Luis...
Having lived (gasp!) in the vicinity (shudder!) of Harvard for the past eight years, cartoonist Al Capp feels that there is such a thing as a single "Harvard type." When one says "Harvard man" in a comic strip, according to Capp, a particular image immediately occurs to the reader. The public has fixed ideas, and "just as the Bowery stands for a bum or Wall Street stands for high finance, the name of Harvard stands for something--a sort of confused superiority...
...live weekly dramas, a once flourishing genre. Philco-Goodyear TV Playhouse and Robert Montgomery Presents have long since preceded them into the long, unsponsored night. Like the others, Kraft and Studio One have both been in a long slide downward; both have been subjected to recent, last-gasp transfusions; neither revived. Studio One will be replaced by Desilu Playhouse, a series of 48 hour-long films produced in Hollywood by Desi Arnaz. Westinghouse paid $11 million for the package, claimed to be the largest single deal in TV history. Kraft will cut down to half an hour, which will...
...scrubby legs could carry him, and then ran round it again. He ran through the side door of the school auditorium. He ran onstage at the instant of his cue (Enter a Messenger), staggered up to the startled young Macbeth and collapsed in a spectacular wreckage of words: "Gra,(gasp!)cious my (gulp!) lord, I (sob!) should report that (wheeze!) which I (glug!) . . ." The audience gasped, gulped, stared, roared, crashed into applause...