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...whose first bid for public office took both rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats by surprise. Also surprising was the unanimity mustered at the party convention, which nominated him by acclamation. Though Nutmeg State Republicans have been notorious for factional feuding in recent years, State Republican Chairman A. Searle Pinney was quick to spot Gengras' potential and, with other party leaders, quietly started lining up the dissidents weeks before the convention...
...Koletsky (Yale), 4. Hardin (Yale), 5. S. Falk (Harvard), 6. Fleming (Yale)--1:06.1. ONE-METER DIVE: 1. Frischmann (Syracuse), 2. Gorman (Harvard), 3. Knight (Army), 4. Starkweather (Yale), 5. Stone (Harvard), 6. Hurych (Rutgers)--387.25 total points. 200-YARD INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: 1. Jecko (Yale), 2. McGill (Syracuse), 3. Pinney (Connecticut), 4. Clinton (Yale), 5. Sherman (Yale), 6. Jones (Amherst)--2:08.7 (Meet and Pool Record). 400-YARD FREESTYLE RELAY: 1. Yale (Robinson, Hibbard, Cornwell, Anderson), 2. Harvard (Macky, Clifton, Lind, Dyer), 3. Colgate, 4. Amherst, 5. Navy, 6. Dartmouth--3:25.2 (Meet Record...
...many a sorry dragon knows, Delta Pinney's Busy Bee liquor store, hard by a lonely El Paso alley, is a bristling castle. Instruments of defense: eight Smith & Wesson .38 pistols strategically sited behind the counter, one large shotgun-and long, lean Storekeeper Pinney, 57, who never loosed a lethal bullet during his three years on the El Paso police force, but has made up for it since. His record in nine holdups since 1940: three holdup men dead, eight wounded. None got a dime...
...dusk and raining. Storekeeper Pinney watched Krolik enter. A hefty six-footer, wearing a red-and-green golfer's cap, black T shirt and soft yellow moccasins, Krolik asked for a bottle of whisky -then, as Pinney turned, pulled out his new pistol and ordered: "Give me all the green money." Pinney put his money on the counter. Krolik reached, lowering his pistol slightly. In a flash, ex-Cop Pinney whipped out one of his own revolvers, shot four times. As Krolik fell to the floor without firing back. Pinney observed him "wriggling like he was going...
Under Texas law. which still unquestioningly recognizes a citizen's right to arms in home or place of business, police considered Texan Pinney had done his duty. A passionate man, whose first wife divorced him because he threatened to shoot her, Delta Pinney coolly mopped blood as the police listened. "You have to watch their eyes to stay alive," he said. "He blinked his eyes, and I killed him. I don't have no use for somebody who'll try to take anything away from...