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...rifle slug ripped through a U.S. embassy fifth-floor window, missing two men by inches and slamming into a picture. Colonel Charles Deerwester, U.S. Air Attache, coolly stretched a string from the hole in the picture to the hole in the window, took a sight along the line. The string pointed straight to a seventh-floor window of police headquarters, a block and a half away. "Damned good marksman," said Deerwester...
...horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants had been assembled for the occasion), drank a slug of bourbon, nibbled some hors d'oeuvres, shook hands with his host, and was on his way again...
What makes Buckley's broadcast a lot less funny than the proof-reading mistakes or misplaced slug's is that its sponsors claim they have received more than 18,000 requests for reprints. A director of Kalamazoo College has requested copies for the College's Trustees. The "Editorial Director" of the broadcast's sponsoring organization says "Buckley may be leading an educational crusade." If so, he is leading it straight downhill...
Armored Warfare. In High Point, N.C. Nollie Parker asked doctors to remove a .32-cal. pistol slug from the back of his head, walked calmly out of the hospital with his trophy and a slight headache...
...Harry Truman-who gathered his family together at the Little White House at Key West last week and answered questions by Canadian-born Mrs. Eileen Nolte, a Navy petty officer's wife-most invited the census takers inside and, in many cases, offered them coffee, cake, or a slug of bourbon...