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...Sardinia and southern Italy. But bandits, though they make news nearly every week, aren't what they used to be-and Musolino's reputation survives in ballads still sung. A young woodcutter of Aspromonte, a craggy region near the toe of the Italian boot, Musolino, like Robin Hood, turned outlaw first (so it was said) when he was falsely accused of attempted murder. Two years later, he escaped from jail, and for the next three years conducted his own roughhewn version of justice...
Their quarry was no blue-chinned hood in a bulletproof vest, but a woman of 29 with dyed black hair and five telltale moles on her face. She was Mrs. Margaret O'Connor, and she was wanted in connection with 100 armed robberies...
...Youssef is now regally established, awaiting his return to the throne. The old pasha was kept waiting one hour. Then, after photographers and reporters had been posted at a big window to record the moment of high triumph, the door was flung wide. Shrouded in white djellaba and hood, El Glaoui shucked off his pointed slippers and advanced. The imperial chamberlain put a firm hand on El Glaoui's neck, sent him to the floor. The once-powerful pasha, who boasted that his 300,000 musket-toting Berber tribesmen made "cowards tremble and gave hope to the weak," groveled...
...Mary's for his first preaching session was a long way from Georgia, or even from London's Harringay Arena. There was no singing, no platform to pace, no lapel microphone,' no special lighting. Dressed in a black academic gown with the red, green and gold hood of an honorary doctor of laws (Houghton College, N.Y., '50), he stood in the cramped quarters of the pulpit before a crowd of 1,200 which had left behind an overflow queue two blocks long. When he began to speak, probably no more than 10% of them were wholeheartedly...
...rescued the lady). A Romantic Guy, I became a top-hat-and-white-tie serenade, and Suddenly There Is a Valley went to a hospital, where a nurse (Dorothy Collins) sang her "song of optimism and faith" to a suffering patient. Autumn Leaves had a jazzy Red Riding Hood ruffle a slick "wolf" in a wooden glen...