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...wire. A hundred steel-helmeted police armed with rifles and submachine guns covered the house. Finally, at dawn, with Stoffel's permission, the police broke into the legation grounds. Following a trail of bloodstains in the snow, they found Chauffeur Setu lying unconscious under a bush, bleeding from gunshot wounds. They rushed him to a hospital, where he died...
Died. Sol Butler, 59, onetime (1920) U.S. running broad-jump champion, one of the first Negroes to play professional football (on the Canton Bulldogs in the early '20s, with Jim Thorpe); of gunshot wounds; in Chicago. Butler, a bartender, was shot down by a customer he had thrown out for annoying a waitress...
...popular sport for England's colonial possessions is pulling the tail of the British lion, whether by asking for independence or more economic support. The most persistent of recent irritations comes from the strategically located island of Cyprus, rising from the Mediterranean within gunshot of Turkey. The Cypriots have pleaded for independence, but the British answer has been as blunt and undignified as a punch in the nose...
...agencies in the names of friends and relatives, taken 3% to 15% of the premium in commissions, v. the ¼% to 1% charged by reputable firms. Some shady companies were found to be offering sizable kickbacks for business brought to them by union leaders. In New York, the late (gunshot wounds) Yonkers Raceway Labor Boss Thomas F. Lewis (TiME, Oct. 5) and his associates picked up $275,000 in excess commissions and fees from the welfare fund of his small (about 5,000 members) union. In Minneapolis, a teamsters' union-fund trustee borrowed money from the fund to open...
...night in St. Louis when the Rabbit dived fully clothed into a fountain pool (though he always denied that he came gurgling to the surface with a goldfish clenched in his teeth). There was the time when he was playing in Brooklyn and staged a fake killing, complete with gunshot, that was daffy enough even by Dodger standards. And there was the time when he got news of his appointment as manager of the Chicago Cubs. "A'nice way to celebrate this," mused the Rabbit, "would be to fight a couple of Irish cops...