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...Gruner, 33, a Jew with a bullet-crushed jaw and the corundum-hard eyes of an Irgun Zvai Leumi triggerman, stood before a Jerusalem Military Court. He was charged with taking part in a raid against a British police station last April. Asked to testify, he defiantly refused: "I am a soldier fighting for Zionism; I should be treated as a prisoner of war." Gruner was sentenced to death as a murderer. But what happened in Palestine last week looked more like war than common murder...
...Fullback Bill Paschal was out with a week-old broken jaw...
Loss of Face. In Tulsa, Okla., Traffic Patrolman Ned Fanning blew his whistle at a woman driver, got angry when she "made an awful face," made one right back, threw his jaw out of place...
...with memories. In the President Hotel, John Lewis and his followers had plotted their great rebellion in 1935 against the A.F.L. and laid the foundation of a rival C.I.O. In the tarnished ballroom of the Chelsea Hotel, John had given the carpenters' Bill Hutcheson a punch on the jaw (1935). In the same room, in 1940, John resigned the presidency of C.I.O. and Phil Murray mournfully became his successor. Murray had no reason now to feel any happier about...
...Jaw Down, Sing Down. Helen's mother, something of a local concert singer herself, sent 13-year-old Helen to a friend of her own childhood, Madame Vetta Karst, the most exacting voice teacher in St. Louis. A birdlike little woman with an uncontrollable temper, Madame Karst screeched and nagged, threw pillows at her pupils. One day Helen sobbed, "I can never satisfy you!" "When you can satisfy me you won't need me any more," snapped Madame Karst. She taught Traubel to sing "down" so her tones would go over; to drop her jaw...