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Ronald Thomas, a medical technician at Detroit's Osteopathic Clinic, produced a snub-nosed .38-caliber revolver he had stolen from a doctor's coat. "I got a crazy idea," he said, pointing it kiddingly at the others. "Let's play Russian roulette." Then the gun went...
Coach Norm Shepard's team, with a season total of 18-4, sports impressive wins over Army and Navy. Barely nosed out of the EIBL crown, the Crimson brought home the Greater Boston League championship.
The hawk-nosed little man raised his arms, as if in benediction, and 1,000 Peruvian Indians at the airport in the remote jungle town of Iquitos responded with a thunderclap cheer: "Haya presidente! APRA never dies!" The visitor beamed, waved, headed a parade over a red dirt road into...
Late one afternoon a crewman sighted five Turslops gilli (Pacific bottle-nosed porpoises) 500 yds. away. They moved slowly up the channel, making clicks that were clearly heard through the microphones. Apparently the porpoises located the barrier and did not like it. While still 400 yds. away from it, they...
Died. Frank Wilson Braden. 76. cigar-puffing circus press agent, a walking, talking thesaurus of big-top ballyhoo to whom clowns were not clowns but rather "red-nosed, chalk-faced worshipers of the bluebird of happiness." who variously trumpeted the thrills of the Gentry. Sells-Floto, Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey...