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...shown in the happy family strip: the shotgun killing of McMath's father by Sid's wife Anne. It happened in 1947, while McMath was prosecutor. His father, drinking heavily, had threatened Anne; a grand jury called it justifiable homicide...
...Shotgun v. Pistol. Walton Walker is not a colorful prima donna, or an affable diplomat, or a profound strategist, or an egoist with a flair for drama. Military historians will probably not quarrel lengthily over his capabilities; psychologists will not find him an enigma. In World War II he fought as Patton wanted him to; in Korea, he will fight as MacArthur wants him to-however much retreats and holding actions may go against his grain. If ordered to hold, he will stand and fight to the last man, including Walton Walker. He is, in every sense of the phrase...
...party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt, he empties a shotgun at Elizabeth from a distance of ten paces-but misses. Abandoned by the party, with Scotland Yard and Army Intelligence closing in, he is more successful when he tries suicide...
Guilty Still paralyzed by a bullet in his spine, Negro Sharecropper Thomas Harris raised himself painfully from his stretcher and pointed at the defendant. It was 25-year-old Windol Whitt, he swore, who had stood at the back door of his house with a shotgun the night three of his children were murdered and another wounded by three drunken white hoodlums. By Mississippi law, that was all the prosecutor had to prove. Last week an all-white jury in the little town of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291) brought in the verdict...
...Plain Blackmail." Alfredo denied that the marriage of Father Coronel and Gloria was a shotgun affair, claimed instead that the priest himself had suggested that he marry Gloria when he learned she was pregnant. Said Alfredo: "I even asked him how it was possible for a priest to marry, and he said there is no law against it, that in America they do it all the time...