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...green 1950 Oldsmobile slammed to a stop beside Lynch's car. Two men with Halloween masks over their faces hopped out, jabbed snub-nosed revolvers at them and barked: "Give us the money. We're not kidding." Lynch and Smith promptly handed over their guns and the moneybags. "What are you going to do when a man pokes a gun in your ribs," asked Smith later...
...disappointment in Washington was his snub by Baptist Harry Truman, who failed to answer repeated invitations to attend the meetings. (Said Billy, "I guess he was just too busy or something.") As a consolation prize, he went to Manhattan last week for an hour-long talk with Episcopalian Douglas MacArthur. "He is one of the most inspiring men I ever met," Billy said. "He is deeply religious...
Belgium's constitution is hard on the King's ministers. It specifically states that the ministers shall be held wholly responsible for the King's actions, good or bad. Two weeks ago, 21-year-old King Baudouin announced that he would snub the funeral of Britain's King George VI, and would send his younger brother, Prince Albert, to London in his stead. Why? Well, Baudouin is his father's son, and his memory still smarts at the British attitude towards his father Leopold over Belgium's surrender to Germany...
From the moment Alexander parked his Ford (a car he soon traded for a flashy Chrysler), the school became a teacher's nightmare. He packed a snub-nosed .38 pistol tucked in his waistband. He had a switch knife with which he picked his teeth. He flashed a roll of bills and spouted the fastest brand of jive talk his astounded classmates had ever heard...
More & more modern painters and critics agree with Hofmann, revere him as the dean of a fast-growing school of U.S. abstractionists. Such leading lights of the school as Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell snub nature, keep their eyes on the canvas and paint nothings like fury...