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Franco had been warned. U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour, before he left Madrid last month, told him that the U.S. was displeased with Spain's tardy evolution toward political freedom. Later British Ambassador Sir Victor Mallet drove home the same point...
...this is to die young. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart. In the hot-fit of life, a tip-toe on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing, when, trailing with him clouds of glory, this happy-starred, full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual land...
...splinter from a banged croquet mallet pierced Bob Russell's left eye when he was five, and sympathetic blindness struck his right one. He studied from first grade through high school at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, learned Braille and how to use a typewriter. He was a mainstay of the Institute wrestling team that consistently licked Columbia's freshmen and jayvees. In 1941 and 1942, Russell won the middleweight championships at the Westchester (N.Y.) County tournaments...
...full payment that William Clatterbuck dealt out was five murders. In his first moment of rage he clubbed Morris Love, 58, to death with a croquet mallet, lying handy on the old front porch. When son James Love, 21, ran out of the house with a rifle, Clatterbuck disarmed him, shot him in the head, bashed his head with the gunstock for good measure. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot Mrs. Love through the heart, went on out to the barn. There he shot and clubbed the hired man and his wife, left them dead...
...jamming practice is to do the next best thing: make such exasperating, excruciating noises that listeners turn to another station rather than be driven nuts. One favorite Axis jamming signal is a series of musical tones repeated interminably, as if a mad vibraphonist were banging away rapidly with one mallet. Another sounds like a collection of piercingly shrill peanut whistles...