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...Shotgun. Harrison watched part of the mob lead quivering Roger Malcolm and George Dorsey down a sandy track toward an oak tree. The Negro wives left behind in the car began to shriek. Harrison heard one of them call out the name of one of the mob, but swore he couldn't remember what...
Then "the big man said 'Git them bitches, too.' A little fellow wearing Army shoes, clothes and an Army cap held a shotgun on me. One man said, 'Let's shoot him too.' The big man thought it over. He asked me twice, 'Do you recognize anybody?' I said, 'No, you shouldn't shoot...
...Bergdoll, World War I's slick slacker, lashed himself into an offensive fury. The butler on his Downington (Pa.) estate told police all about it: when he demanded $150 in back pay, fat, 52-year-old Bergdoll gave him a quick sock in the head, then grabbed a shotgun. "I'll shoot you down like a dog," said Bergdoll. Wife Berta Bergdoll stepped in, ruled out a shooting war, let it go to law. The butler's charge: assault & battery and pointing of firearms...
Such antics were dismissed this week by the editor of the American, Journal of Public Health, Professor C.E.A. Winslow of Yale, as no more helpful than beating tom-toms-"reminiscent of the days of yellow fever and the shotgun quarantine of a century ago, when people were driven by blind fear, ignorance and superstition." Added Winslow: "There is no reason to believe that improved methods of sewage treatment and disposal, more rigid standards for the purification of water supplies, or the dusting of DDT over a city . . . will have any measurable effect on the incidence of infantile paralysis...
Chain Reaction. In Beverly Hills, Mo., the Leslie Whites had a loud weekend: first, a quart jar of gooseberry preserves blew up; next, three cans of date pudding; finally, a gallon jug of gasoline, which touched off a hundred 12-gauge shotgun shells, a thousand .22 cartridges...