Word: govoni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later, 90 miles away in the jungle near a mountain resort hotel, Weldy came upon Harrison again. This time Harrison was accompanied by Confidential's Managing Editor A. P. Govoni and a blonde nightclub singer, Geene Courtney, 30, onetime Miss Cheesecake of New York. The party carried guns for hunting, but as a Confidential spokesman put it, " It was a sort of a lark in the mountains; you know what I mean...
...rison. "He was gesticulating and nearly hysterical," according to Harrison, who had never come up against an armed reader before. "The gun flew from his hand and hit a rock. Courtney screamed. I felt an awful pain and fell down. Weldy beat it like a shot out of hell." Govoni, who was armed, lit out fast, too. Like Weldy, he said he rushed off to get help, though both seemed equally eager to get out of gunfire range. That left Harrison, clutching a flesh wound in his left shoulder, and Miss Courtney...
Deplorable Shot. When Govoni started back to the jungle with help, he could not find the couple. Soon fog and darkness closed in, and the searchers gave up for the night. Next day, parties of 4,000 civil guards, police, soldiers and Boy Scouts beat the bushes until they found Harrison and Miss Courtney, both exhausted after a sleepless night and suffering from exposure. While they recovered in a Ciudad Trujillo hospital, the police put Weldy in a cell until they could check his story that the shot was an accident...