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Born. To Enos ("Country") Slaughter, 42, tobacco-chewing, knuckle-bald New York Yankee outfielder whose dependable pinch-hitting recalls a long, starring career with the St. Louis Cardinals (1938-53), and Helen Spiker Slaughter, 28, onetime airline stewardess: their second child, second daughter (he has a son by one of four earlier marriages); in Ridgewood, N.J. Name: Sharon Lynn...
...inspired-not by liberty-but by what was literally a holy horror of the French; they would not even eat from a plate a Frenchman had touched. When they were brought to battle, they presented "inert masses" to the French artillery until the gunners themselves stopped, aghast at their slaughter. It had become a war of icon and tricolor. Ségur records his disillusion: "It was no longer a war of kings we were fighting, but a class war, a party war, a religious war, a national war-all sorts of wars rolled into...
Married. Richard Egan, 36, cinemactor (The Revolt of Mamie Stover, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue); and TV and Cinemactress Patricia (Girls in the Night) Hardy, 26; both for the first time; in San Francisco...
After years in the national doghouse, Howard Fast renounced Communism, and is now thoroughly rehabilitated: this week he sold another novel to the movies, to be made into a $4,000,000 epic of sin, slaughter, and spectacle (not socialism) in ancient Rome. The history of Fast's career provides disturbing evidence of the existence in America of an informal conspiracy, not so much to prevent the dissemination of Communist propaganda, as to prevent Communist artists from making a living...
...dawn one day last week, the slaughter of the sparrows in Peking began, continuing a campaign that has been going on in the countryside for months. The objection to the sparrows is that, like the rest of China's inhabitants, they are hungry. They are accused of pecking away at supplies in warehouses and in paddyfields at an officially estimated rate of four pounds of grain per sparrow per year. And so divisions of soldiers deployed through Peking streets, their footfalls muffled by rubber-soled sneakers. Students and civil servants in high-collared tunics, and schoolchildren carrying pots...