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Last Fight. Enraged at this disturbance, Bummy roared, "Leave the guy alone!" When the gunmen showed no signs of following his advice he seized the nearest by a coat lapel, shoved him into position, then knocked him clear out of the joint with a murderous left. Unnerved, the other holdup men backed out, shooting at point-blank range. Bummy dived after them, swinging wildly and roaring horrible epithets. Bullets hit him in the spine, the lungs, the right arm. He kept swinging his left. He was outside, running for his automobile to give further chase, before he finally fell dead...
Whatever the answer to the problem may be, let's take a more positive attitude towards College affairs. Proving that the Harvard man is a shade above Joe College requires a little more than a well-tailored lapel. David B. Wilson...
...party in Manhattan's swank Hotel Pierre, a young man with a gold discharge button in his lapel bounded to the platform with the aplomb of an old vaudevillian. His selections from Broadway's Song of Norway and Carousel stopped the show. Last week, one of the guests, a Broadway agent, signed the singing war veteran to a contract, and had high hopes of landing him a fat part in a musical comedy. For husky Sidney Lawson, 23, it was quite a step. Only a month ago he was a member of the Society of Timid Souls...
Last week, accompanied by Captain John O'Connell, Jimmy arrived by clipper. Decorations won by his flier buddies covered his blue serge lapel. Jimmy's thoughts, for once, were far from music. He said: "They let me hold the rudder and steer the ship, and my, that was a thrill...
...Sunday the President, wearing a red rose at his lapel and accompanied by all of the family group except his mother, went to the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. In its chapel he led the nation's observance of a day of prayer in thanksgiving for victory. Then Harry Truman visited ailing Cordell Hull, a patient at the hospital...