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Small Point. In Fort Worth, after Sam Childers, 21, and his bride of four months "had words," he decided to spite her by using a 12-gauge shotgun to blast off his own toes, said in the hospital: "It wasn't a real argument...
...Heat. In Milwaukee, arrested on charges of battery and reckless use of firearms after beating his wife and holding four cops at bay for an hour with a .30-. 30 rifle and 12-gauge shotgun, John Manyo, 44, surrendered, pleaded that he is "high strung...
...brass bands and cheering thousands, found that corruption and inefficiency in local government had enhanced the memory of him as a Robin Hood. To stimulate the legend of his past military feats, he took to swaggering about town wearing a pair of six-shooters and cradling a 12-gauge shotgun...
...cases. (It has since been shown that an amino acid, tryptophane, found in protein foods, is also essential in pellagra prevention.) But Experimenter Spies was convinced that where there was one vitamin deficiency, there were likely to be others. He advocated supplements of several vitamins, was sharply criticized for "shotgun" treatment, has been fully vindicated by later findings...
...with ambitions of becoming a professional concert baritone. "But the folks was havin' to scratch and grind for a few bucks," so Ernie went back to odd radio jobs. In California he joined Hillbilly Cliffie Stone's local show, Hometown Jamboree, and made some records (Mule Train, Shotgun Boogie) that led to a guest appearance in Las Vegas. "I was scared to death to play before an audience of sophisticates and gamblers." In 1955, with his driving, metronome sense of rhythm, he recorded a coal miner's bitter lament called Sixteen Tons ("Saint Peter...