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...Brooklyn, N. Y., Rose Provenzano, 19, jilted Ralph Ferrara, 20. He fired six shots at her (one hit her in the shoulder) and one at himself (it furrowed his scalp). She refused to sign a complaint. Said she: "I never realized how much Ralph loved me until he shot me. . . . I'm going to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Commandant | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...take them a great deal of intellectual independence and some courage. Whenever an editor comes out and whacks a public institution (possibly the American Legion) on the head, no matter how justified he may be, a great army of defenders of morals and manners goes into action demanding the scalp of the unfortunate editor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/24/1930 | See Source »

...winners thus kept clean a record which they have held since their season opened adding the Harvard scalp to their belt on which already hang six. In the opening minutes of play the Eli players sent a fire of shots against Gulick, the Harvard goalie, who let five of them slip by. Salmon was substituted in his place, and in the remainder of the game he stopped 13 out of 15 shots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM BADLY BEATEN BY ELI STICKMEN | 5/29/1930 | See Source »

...clock the University lacrosse team will oppose Yale on the field behind the Business School. The Eli stickmen, fresh from three victories over Princeton, 8 to 3, Union, 20 to 4, and Dartmouth, 15 to 12, will try to take the Crimson forces into camp for their fourth scalp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN CONFRONT ELI TWELVE THIS AFTERNOON | 5/28/1930 | See Source »

Though it failed to kill, Daniel Flores' fusillade wrought damage. One bullet broke the already deeply scarred jaw of President Ortiz Rubio; another carried away part of the right ear and grazed the scalp of his wife, Senñora Ortiz Rubio; another wounded his niece, Señorita Maria Rosh; a fourth grazed Chauffeur Felix Galvan. Flying glass cut the President's secretary, Col. Hernandez Chazaro, and a friend, one Sostenes Garcia. There were two misses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Inauguration Without Assassination | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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