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Josef Krips, a vain but capable musician, is a man pursued by governments...
...Englishman's home used to be his castle," roared outraged Householder William Clarke of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, but the protest was in vain. The local district council, of which he himself was a member, had decided that Clarke's house would make a better village office building. When Clarke refused to budge, the council sent out five burly bailiffs to carry out the condemnation order. Aided by two casual volunteers, the bailiffs picked up Clarke, dragged him down a rose-lined drive and dumped him, in a public road...
...Like Maria, few Sicilians could believe at first that Salvatore Giuliano was really dead. He had been as handsome as a schoolgirl's dream, as vain and indestructible as a god on Olympus. For seven years in the mountain fastnesses of Sicily, he had been the king of bandits in a land where every bandit is looked upon as a king. Giuliano had gathered about him an army of 600 or more followers...
...killed his man in a pistol duel in Nashville, Tenn., was mobbed by his victim's friends and saved from lynching when a friend of his cut the rope. He lived to a sinful old age (65), a hulking, white-mustached figure of some 200 lbs., immensely vain (at times sporting 20 medals) and prodigiously philandering (he had six wives in all, two at once in 1871). Ned wrote more words than most men speak, 10,000 a day in one six-day stretch, once blurting out an entire three-act play in four hours...
...Membe of the Royalty." He was an irritatingly vain man whose boastful talk lost friends almost as fast as his piano-playing won them. He yielded no quarter of fame to any of his now-famous contemporaries. "People believe Louis Armstrong originated scat [singing]," he said. "I must take that credit away from him." His blast at W. C. (St. Louis Blues) Handy as "a liar" who "cannot prove anything in music that he has created" endeared him to no one. His own flamboyant claim was that "I personally originated jazz in New Orleans...