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Percy Julian, a proud, energetic man of 51, stood his ground and served notice that his family would move into the house by New Year's Day. He hired (for $36 a day) a private, round-the-clock guard to patrol the property with bulldog and shotgun. "We've lived through these things all our lives," said Percy Julian. "As far as the hurt to the spirit goes, we've become accustomed to that...
...lean little sparrow hawk of a man, sharp-beaked, with bright hazel eyes, Menaboni roams the Georgia swamps and forests, hunting birds with a .410 shotgun, a camera, traps and a sketch pad (he has special state and federal permits to collect two of each species a year for his pictures). Whenever possible, Menaboni draws his birds from life, to get the action right, sometimes dispatches them to do the plumage. The fact that he can keep them fresh in a refrigerator, he says, is a big advantage that Audubon would have appreciated. Another and greater advantage is his ability...
Uncle Scott Partin remembers well the first time he saw Parson Frakes. "I had a jug of moonshine in one fence corner," he recalls, "and a shotgun in the other. I had a notion to shoot him. I thought he was a revenuer...
...Hatless Corpse. That evening, sharp as ever in a dark suit, pearl-grey fedora and canary-yellow gloves, Drury drove his new black Cadillac home. At 6:45 he backed into the garage. Two men stepped out of the darkness and faced the car. With a shotgun and a .45, they punched four holes in the windshield. The first slugs knocked Drury's hat to the seat; the rest plowed into his head and body. An hour later Bill Drury was dead-without a hat on. Upstairs on his desk was a telephone message: the Kefauver committee had called...
Nevertheless, both Northeast's Gardner and Delta's Woolman thought they could eventually get CAB's green light. Said Woolman: "This [type of] merger is what CAB . . . has been asking for. It is not a shotgun wedding, but something both want to improve operations...