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...debts, including an $86,000 tax bill, that his brother left after he died in jail in 1967 while awaiting a retrial. Like so much else in the story of the Kennedy assassination, the identity of the purchaser remains a mystery. The bidder, Frank Roman, says he bought the pistol on behalf of an anonymous gun collector...
...nothing compared with what he achieved on Nov. 19 of this year: Turner, alive and well, stabilized by medication and psychiatric counseling, beloved by Jane Fonda, celebrated his 53rd birthday. Fifty-three was the age at which Turner's father shot himself through the head with a .38-cal. pistol, and it was an age that many people who know Turner did not expect him to reach. While most Americans think of Turner as the loud cheerleader of the Braves, the corporate Don Quixote who went after CBS or the peace-loving impresario of the Goodwill Games, those close...
When it dawned on MacArthur that he too was being abandoned, he spoke grandly of his destiny. "They will never take me alive," he said as he slipped a loaded pistol into his pocket. But MacArthur was just a pawn on an enormous political chessboard. Australia, threatened by the Japanese advances, demanded the return of three divisions sent to help Britain fight Germany. But the Australians said they would not insist if the U.S. promised troops and appointed an American supreme commander for the whole South Pacific. Churchill, unwilling to withdraw the Australians then battling Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps...
...went to the sporting-goods counter and said I would like to buy a 9-mm pistol. "You want that Glock?" the salesman asked, recognizing my voice. He took out the display gun, which had a locked trigger, and gave it to me. "Here you are, Model 17. They make a Model 19 also." Another customer, who turned out to be a grocery-store manager, spoke up. "That's a popular gun right now. They're real popular with the kids -- high school kids. They buy them off the streets. They tell...
...tempted, but the salesman returned with the Model 19. We discussed the differences between the two models. "Well," I said, "I want one that's going to hit every time. How does it work?" When the salesman learned that I had never used a pistol before, he recommended that I get training from a professional at a practice range. I asked about the parts of the gun: the clip, the bullets, where everything fit. The gun holds a total of 17 bullets, and a spare clip is included...