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...Second Front, at a pro-Soviet rally in Carnegie Hall. She was with him just once during a 23-day stay, but that once, she said, involved a three-hour visit to his Waldorf-Astoria bedroom. Back in Beverly Hills, she broke into his mansion one night with a pistol, "intending to kill myself," held the gun for an hour until he talked her into bed again. Admitted by both sides: Chaplin paid her train fare both ways but did not travel with her, did not pay her hotel bills. Asserted by the defense: she went at her own request...
Second Lieut. Harry J. Light and two girls were sitting in the Camp Anza officers' club drinking beer with 2nd Lieut. Swancutt when the lady-killer suddenly leaped to his feet, began firing his .45-caliber service pistol...
Again the wild-eyed Swancutt opened fire. Two bullets landed in Schlegel's chest, two hit Policeman Simpson, who kept firing as he fell. Policeman Cole, a pistol marksman, blazed away. That was the end of the rampage. Swancutt was lugged off to a hospital, charged with murder, held for a military trial...
After U.S. doughboys had captured one house, four Germans stalked in through the front gate, throwing grenades and rattling machine-pistol fire through the open door. Two Americans were hit; one German was killed as the attackers scuttled back around the corner...
...months beribboned Navy flyers have whispered behind waving hands of a dream plane they could hardly wait to fly. It was supposed to combine the best features of fighter and bomber, have the fire-power of a small battleship, be as big a jump ahead of the pistol-hot Hellcat as that airplane was ahead of the Wildcat. Last week came first acknowledgment of the Navy's super-fighter, casually mentioned in the Truman Committee report...