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...years Chicago Cartoonist Russell Stamm, 40, drew his comic strip Scarlet O'Neil without attracting much attention. Then, two years ago, into the big-city adventures in the strip ambled Stainless Steel, a Texas sheriff far from home. He had flowing blond hair and the physique of a Michelangelo statue. "In general," drawled Stainless, "heroics is mah business." His business soon proved so successful that the number of papers taking the strip from the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate rose from 126 to 148 (including 39 in foreign countries). This week Stainless Steel was getting ready to perform a most...
...little town of Mateur, 40 miles from the capital city of Tunis, a nationalist in a scarlet skullcap leaped atop a rickety table and proclaimed joyful news to a crowd. One by one, he haled 17 cleanshaven, tough-looking young men up beside him, and as each appeared the crowd yelled louder and hand-clapped rhythmically. The 17 young men wore faded U.S. Army Eisenhower jackets, adorned with the red, white and red patch of Tunisian independence fighters...
...sleek, black colt looked like a winner. Highbred and proud, Landau moved out of the paddock under the royal purple, gold and scarlet silks of his owner, Queen Elizabeth II. But his reputation had preceded him to the U.S. Every horseplayer who had come to Laurel, Md. for the third running of the Washington, D.C. International knew the skittish three-year-old as a notorious equine neurotic. Balky as a kid who always refuses to perform for company, he had an exasperating habit of quitting in a close stretch drive...
...Italy's top resistance heroes in the war. Toward the end of the war, when the Germans were still holding on in the north, Sogno smuggled so many refugees out and so many agents in that he became known as Italy's Scarlet Pimpernel. But he saw clearly that the Communists were trying to get control of Italy's liberation movement, not for Italy's good but for their own power. He developed an admiration for their skill and an abiding hatred of their purposes...
...Snack of Glass. When "Queen" Caroline met Lord Byron, even the robustest Whig was rocked by the resulting drama. Caroline dressed up as Poet Byron's page boy in a silver-laced jacket and scarlet pantaloons, bit large pieces out of her wine glass when she saw him talking to another woman. But Melbourne stood staunchly by his Fairy Queen, watching her glittering hysteria degenerate into madness. She died in 1828, leaving him the father of a half-witted...