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...from standing starts. Some settled for simple horseplay. One doughty fellow teased his friends with a mop until they charged him with chains, beat his face bloody and banged his head against the pavement. "Get up and you're dead," said a buddy, who kicked him in the groin and slouched...
...girls, both 1955 Silver Skates champions, inflicted numerous injuries on officers. Cambridge patrolman Frank Foster was kicked in the groin, and bitten on the hand and back, while University patrolman George Burrows was knocked down and bitten on the knee...
...Teamsters' growth went to Dave Beck, the red-haired son of a hard-working carpet cleaner and a laundress, who entered the union's ranks by way of a job as a laundry driver, and became West Coast organizer. The jurisdictional labor wars of the 1930s were groin-kicking, skullcracking, stink-bombing affairs, and Dave Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar of skunk juice to use in stink bombs.) Described as a physical coward...
...Edward H. Gibson, "the human pincushion'," one of several who appeared in vaudeville at the turn of the century, let as many as 60 pins be stuck in him anywhere except the abdomen and groin. The climax of his show-business career was a crucifixion in which an assistant hammered a sharp spike through one of his hands, was ready to carry on with his other hand and feet, but the show had to be stopped because too many members of the audience fainted...
...freshman scrimmage, a kick in the stomach tore loose some of Parry's groin muscles. "Thereafter," he recalls, "any grunting effort would result in excruciating pain. The frosh team was under the direction of Harry 'Black Jack' Smith then. He taught football like it was war. Jeff Cravath was varsity coach. Between the two of them, I about lost interest in the game." Another man who helped ease Parry out of his football pads was Wilbur ("Moose") Thompson, U.S.C.'s 1948 Olympic shotput winner, who had watched the blond, well-larded freshman working out with...