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...That Rascal." A little after midnight, 400 Chinese attacked in a businesslike skirmish line. It was the first wave of a sustained, methodical assault by more than 1,000 Chinese whose commander wanted Bunker Hill. The enemy infantry charged up the open ground, ducking behind rocks and bushes. They ran single file up a six-foot trench that debouched in front of a row of Marine foxholes. They ran through a screen-of flying earth and metal thrown up by all the U.N. guns within range of the hill...
...reputations," there is scarcely a newspaper in Britain that would dare run the risk of exposing a British businessman who had made gifts to a government official. Even the laws of "qualified privilege" (i.e., libelproof material) are so tight that if a U.S. Senator called a British minister a rascal on the floor of the Senate, a British paper that published the news (as a U.S. newspaper could) would be subject to suit...
...room. He made Steed accompany him to Southern France, where hotel employees lined up to honor the visiting millionaire, only to be driven away by his insults. After Steed warned the editors to ignore any unusual messages, Northcliffe wrote a cable to one top staffer: YOU ARE A RASCAL AND A THIEF. I WILL HAVE THE LAW ON YOU. IF YOU DON'T LEAVE THE OFFICE IMMEDIATELY I WILL COME WITH THE POLICE AND TURN...
...GREAT RASCAL (353 pp.) -Jay Monaghan-Little, Brown...
Today, thousands of admirers still pay homage at the tomb of Buffalo Bill on Lookout Mountain near Denver. But not one man in a hundred thousand knows the name of the remarkable, gnomelike promoter without whom Buffalo Bill would never have existed. The Great Rascal is Ned Buntline's first full-dress biography, and the galloping glitter of his career more than makes up for the limping prose in which Author Monaghan describes...