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...that the .22 bullet had gone through her uterus. He sewed up the mother's wounds, deciding against a Caesarean for fear of infection. Five days later a premature 5½ lb. baby was born alive and healthy except for a bloodless bullet hole drilled neatly through its thigh...
...that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid in the same era as Somerset Maugham's trashy recent novel about Machiavelli. When it comes to the vital business of battles, eye-gougings, jeweled garters, entrancing moles on the thigh, and the neighing of palfreys, Shellabarger writes rings around the Maugham of Then...
...Finer Things. The cops wondered, at first, whether Alice would really use her .38. She settled that in 1927 when she surprised a 14-year-old boy stripping a car. When he tried to run away, she dropped him with a slug in the right thigh. In 1934, detailed to hunt purse-snatchers, she winged her second thief with one shot. A month later, she shot another thief...
...then married him again in Hollywood, said she would now divorce him. Alan Stephan, "Mr. America of 1946," married Grace Pomazal, "Miss Quick Freeze." Hedy Lamarr's estranged husband, Actor John Loder, who had been pricked in a dueling scene, had a sword-tip cut from his thigh. And Actor Chester Morris broke his leg in two places dancing at a children's party...
...five more hit his 67-year-old grandmother in the back as she got out and started to escape. In blind terror, 13-year-old Ann, the only York in the car still alive, pelted up the lane with lead cracking around her. Hit in the thigh, she managed to keep going until she reached a farmhouse where she sobbed out her story, and named the rifleman...