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...spirits ... It was not a case of any inability to formulate ideas. In fact the ideas were ahead of his speech. The only problem that the President was having was a hesitancy in finding a very few words ... I noticed no slurring . . . Quite obviously, he is like a caged lion. He wants to get out there and go to work." By that time Jim Hagerty was back on the job, answering questions, filling in details...
...Lion Defensive Coach Buster Ramsey, for one, prefers a touch of meanness to a taste for heroics. "We don't hire linebackers that aren't mean," admits Ramsey readily. "And the first few days on the practice field in 1953 you could tell that Schmidt was a man we could use. But unlike some linebackers, he's clean at being mean." Says Schmidt simply: "I tackle low and hard. There's only one reason for a high, crashing tackle-to hurt a man. It gives me just as much satisfaction to nail a hard-running back...
...more than 100 stocking-footed priests of the Coptic Christian Church began their matins to the booming rhythms of a throbbing bass drum and the jangle of silver rattles. In the streets thousands of adoring subjects set up a howling cry of greeting for Emperor Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later, the tiny, dignified, bearded monarch, resplendent in blue uniform and green sash all enveloped in a redlined cloak, stepped...
Ghee & Porridge. For several weeks, the vengeful women kept the human lion in their house, feeding it on ghee and porridge, and laying their plans. Then they sent it after the son's favorite niece. The child's mother watched in horror as the thing ran off with her baby in its mouth. All that was found of the child later was a few pieces of skull, her toes, kidneys and some scraps of cloth. The Tanganyika court found both women and Lion Trainer Muhandi guilty of murder. The sorcerer appealed on the ground that...
Last week. in the austere severity of a fogbound London, Her Majesty's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council listened solemnly to the case of a murder by a lion-woman in the heart of Africa. Muhandi's appeal was denied; he would be hanged for murder, along with the two women, in accordance with the sentence of the Tanganyika court...