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...Kentucky mountain town of Hazard one day last week, an old coal miner walked up to a minor commotion on the sidewalk and stuck out his hand. "I hear you're running for governor,'' he said to the grinning, greying man in the center of the crowd. Albert Benjamin Chandler, 56, clutched the miner's hand and encircled his waist with a powerful left arm. "The rumor's out, is it?" he said. "Well, I'm trying to spread...
...Bottles of Pop. On evacuation day, when the Sophiatowners came out of their condemned homes, they found 2,000 armed policemen on guard at their front doors. The first trucks rumbled down Toby Street. Clustered on the sidewalk, a crowd of young Africans made ready to resist, but when the cops started swinging their rifles, the Negroes melted away...
...Word. In Fort Worth, Mrs. M. E. Johnson complained to the city council that her tavern business was suffering from a plague of divinity students who clustered so thickly outside her door preaching sidewalk sermons that prospective customers had to elbow their...
...Sunday People Reporter Duncan Webb, 37, is sometimes called the "greatest crime reporter of our time." In almost 20 years of covering crime he has been slugged, kicked, lunged at with knives, shot at, knuckle-dusted and was once the target of a speeding automobile that raced onto the sidewalk of a narrow Soho street and tried to smash him against a building. Last week Webb was still wearing a plaster cast on his right wrist, broken two months ago when a London gangster known as "Jack Spot" objected to one of his stories by attacking Webb in a back...
...Those madmen over at Disney's" became a Hollywood byword. One Disney animator, for instance, was found lying flat on his back on the sidewalk in a pouring rain. As a policeman dragged him off to the station house, the fellow protested that he had been "studying lightning...