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...Chicago, "Elmer the Elephant," the ear-flapping cloth hero of a local NBC-TV show, calmly went on advising kiddies to brush their tusks every day while a pair of A.F.L. unions battled over his insides. One union claims that the undercover man manipulating Elmer's trunk with his arm is an artist; the other insists he is merely a stagehand handling a prop. The National Labor Relations Board is now trying to decide whether NBC has violated a labor practice law by giving the job to a performer instead of a stagehand...
...knocked her down and dragged her back to the car. As he did so, she saw some horseback riders in the distance. She began to scream. Grappling with her, the man snarled, "If you ever try that again, I'll kill you." He forced her to open the trunk compartment of the car and ordered her to crawl in. She did. He slammed it shut...
...minutes, Mrs. Krone crouched in the stifling trunk on her hands and knees as the automobile jolted at high speed over rough roads. Then the car stopped. Miller got out and tried to open the trunk. He failed. Mrs. Krone had crawled in with the key in her hand, and the door had locked on closing. Cursing her wildly, he demanded that she pass the key out to him. He had driven the automobile to a high and lonely bluff overlooking the Kern River and he threatened to run it over the cliff if she refused...
...obeyed. She found a space between the trunk and the rear seat and pushed the key up into it. Miller took it, and triumphantly opened the trunk door. As she backed out, he seized one of her wrists and whirled her around. Mrs. Krone-who had found her husband's 22-caliber Smith & Wesson target pistol and a box of cartridges in the trunk, and had carefully slipped six cartridges into the cylinder during the wild ride-fired three times. One bullet missed. One hit her attacker in the hip. One passed directly through his heart. He staggered, gasped...
Copilot. In Los Angeles, after arresting Lyle Gann for drunken driving, police searched his car, in the trunk compartment found his wife Wilda, who explained: "I knew he would get drunk, so I stowed away so I could drive him home...