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...only attraction. At rallies he was often preceded by Hegeman's string band, one of Philadelphia's famed Mummers'Parade organizations. His family went campaigning with him-and turned out to be just as belligerent as he. Once his wife, Ann, smacked an obscene heckler with her handbag. Another time, Daughter Deborah, 11 , handed out a leaflet to a man who promptly tore it up and threw it in the gutter. "You can't do that to my Daddy," yelled Deborah, and beaned the man with her whole bundle of leaflets...
...Real Me. Paar sometimes proved to be a bigger hit with G.I.s than either of his famous predecessors, mostly because of his almost foolhardy brass-baiting. Once he squelched a noisy, silver-barred heckler by cracking, "Lieutenant, a man with your I.Q. should have a low voice, too." He once addressed a commanding officer as "My dear sir-and you are none of the three-." Or, apologetically: "I suppose I shouldn't talk about officers so much. Some try, a few are sincere, and-what the hell-a couple even know what they're doing...
Most Northern Baptists sighed with relief when Pastor Norris took Detroit's large Temple Baptist Church out of the Northern Baptist Convention, which he accused of "communistic, unscriptural and socialistic leadership." But he became a perennial heckler at Southern Baptist conventions. Delegates, called "messengers," are allotted on the basis of one per 250 church members-or $250 donated to the convention fund...
...Dodd of Shreveport, La., raised a forbidding hand, but Norris had already started in his high, strident voice. Desperately, Dr. Dodd fell back on the pastor's last resort: he raised his voice and sang, "How firm a foundation. . . ." The congregation loyally joined in. But grinning Heckler Norris was right with them on the second verse, bellowing the words louder than...
There was also the Dodger Rebellion, when the team refused to take the field one day until Durocher explained away a crack about Pitcher Bobo Newsom. And the time Leo was charged with bashing a Brooklyn heckler (who was later paid $6,750). Leo was acquitted of criminal charges after testifying meekly that the heckler had "a tremendously loud voice...