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...American troops expect me to be a living symbol of the wives and sweethearts they left at home. They expect me to be typically American, despite cold water instead of cold cream, fatigues instead of frocks. Always it's more important to wear lipstick than a pistol...
...Texas physician who had been arrested near Múzquiz for running around naked while shooting up an Indian village with a .22 rifle. Not only did the doctor roughly answer Hilda's description, but on the day of the murder he had been seen carrying a .22 pistol only six miles from where the shooting occurred. According to newsmen and the Múzquiz police chief, the doctor repeatedly stated that he had killed "three children" on the Monterrey highway because "they laughed...
Marcos' grandfather taught the boy how to track wild animals in the mountains of Luzon. By the age of twelve, Ferdie was an expert pistol and rifle shot, and at 16 he became national champion in small-bore competition...
...University of the Philippines in 1934, he had gained enough scholarship support to ensure his education without parental help. As a sophomore, he not only proved a top student, but found time to star on the wrestling, boxing and swimming teams, and become captain of the rifle and pistol squad as well as cadet battalion commander in the ROTC. He also got his first taste of political activism. Ferdie took to the soapbox to comment acidly on everything from the curriculum to the policies of the Philippines' first President, Manuel Quezon...
...occurred an incident that still haunts Marcos' career. His father had been defeated in a congressional election by Julio Nalundasan, a sharp-tongued Nacionalista who had insulted Mariano fiercely during the course of the campaign. To Filipinos, insults cannot go unanswered. On a stormy, wind-whipped night shortly after Pistol Champion Ferdie Marcos had returned to Ilocos on vacation, Nalundasan rose from his dinner table and walked to a washbasin. He was starkly silhouetted in the lighted window. A single .22-cal. bullet cracked in the banana tree outside, and Nalundasan dropped dead, shot through the heart. The shadow...