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Some 200 people were eating lunch in Rosoff's Restaurant, also on 43rd Street just east of Times Square, when a Lincoln Continental sedan driven by Paul Bonadio, 59, shot out of a parking garage next door, caromed off the opposite curb and zoomed straight through Rosoff's window into the bar. Three people died in the shambles of glass and metal, and six others were injured...
...Ford sedan turned into Harlem's Lenox Avenue and hurtled north, a blazing tommy gun poking out of its window. At 118th Street, the gun jammed...
...Carlo hotel nearly eight weeks ago was neatly knitted, and there was no trace of the bronchitis that had worried doctors during his convalescence. So, after 54 days in London's Middlesex Hospital, Sir Winston Churchill, 87, went home at last. Carried to a waiting ambulance in a sedan chair, the couchant old lion, chomping his usual Havana cigar and giving a victorious V-sign to a cheering curbside crowd of 1,000, was whisked away to his Hyde Park Gate home for a champagne toast to his recovery. Puffed one proud bystander: "He's a ruddy marvel...
Extolling the general. House Speaker John McCormack, read off a list of his great battles that reverberated like an army drum roll: "The Marne, Meuse-Argonne, St.-Mihiel and Sedan; Bataan, Corregidor, New Guinea, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Manila and Borneo, Pusan and Inchon." Then McCormack presented Mac-Arthur with an engrossed copy of a special resolution, passed unanimously by both Houses of Congress, that expressed the "thanks and appreciation of the Congress and the American people" for his leadership "during and following World War II," and for his many years of effort to strengthen the ties between the Philippines...
...offices are run according to "The Blue Book," which specifies even what kind of desk calendar pads are to be used and what kind of lettering must be on the door. One employee who drove a tan car when Webb wanted all company cars to be black found his sedan had been removed from the parking lot and repainted while he was at work. Webb is too busy to spend much time at his retirement cities. But he did manage to spare a day last week to talk with a group of medical researchers about the establishment of a research...