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...very nearly destroyed. The second explosion came 25 years ago this summer. Early one morning in Ketchum, Idaho, Hemingway (suffering from diabetes, nephritis, alcoholism, severe depression, & hepatitis, hypertension, impotence and paranoid delusions, his memory all but ruined by electroshock treatments) slid two shells into his double-barreled Boss shotgun. Mens morbida in corpore morbido. There was a gruesome ecology in the fact that the last creature Hemingway brought down was himself...
...study hall. If Go-Getting Teenager Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) got "in trouble" with a debutante or chorus girl, it wouldn't be that kind of trouble--just the yelp of puppy love. And it wouldn't end in jail or a shotgun marriage but with a sympathetic lecture from his omniscient father Judge Hardy. The teen landscape on '40s movie screens was like Eden without the apple...
...urging of Army Buddy Platt, Matix moved down to Miami, where the two transplanted Midwesterners founded their own tree-trimming and lawn-care company, the Yankee Clipper. Then, about a year after Patty Matix's death, Platt's wife Regina was killed by a shotgun blast. Her death was ruled a suicide...
...decade (by handguns), and they wonder whether or not they might be next." Only a day after the House action, two FBI agents were killed and five others wounded in Miami as they tried to question two bank robbery suspects who turned on them with an automatic and a shotgun. The casualties were the worst ever suffered by the FBI in a single incident...
...civil RICO cases are actually brought to trial. Says Boston Attorney David Gibbs: "Most lawyers use it as leverage to intimidate the other party into settling out of court. It's a three-barreled shotgun." RICO allows a successful plaintiff to claim triple damages, plus attorneys' fees. And it can mean unsavory publicity. What corporate executive wants to find himself accused of "racketeering"? Explains one lawyer: "They don't like this mix- up over whether they are wearing a white shirt and black tie or a black shirt and white...