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...room 831. There they found a youngish man in red silk pajamas sitting on the bed drinking orange juice. He had sat up late the night before, reading the New York Times. A chorus girl was tubbing in the bathroom, the three men went into room 829. A volley of shots shattered out. Then the two callers left as quietly as they had come. The chorus girl disappeared...
...Harvey Snodgrass 6-1, 6-3, 6-2. Critics, believing Richards looked fat and pallid, favored Kozeluh in the final, and the Czechoslovakian started just as they expected him to. He won the first set 6-2. In the next set Richards started a terrific rally. He matched his volley with Kozeluh's accurate backhand drives and at last broke through service to win 10-8. Then, amazingly, it was the nutbrown, buoyant Kozeluh who tired. The pasty-faced, fiercely concentrated Richards at the net was a far deadlier player than Richards, the slim prodigy who used to beat...
...much excited when Vines lost the first set?his slow start had been the familiar prolog of his brilliance. He started the second set by winning two games in cyclonic style. They were the last he won. Self-contained, graceful Wood, master of backcourt elegance and a competent volley, was softballing Vines out of his game. In every other match the Californian had undone his opponents with their own strength, using their speed as a foil for his. He could not hit Wood's gentle, accurate chopshots. All he could do was imitate them, flounderingly, unsuccessfully. Score for Woods...
...Mississippi. Dave Harris, black and 35, was suspected of stealing groceries from the Clayton Funderberg farm near Rosedale. Young Clayton Funderberg, 17, with two friends marched out with shotguns to the Harris cabin to "teach that damn nigger a lesson." Harris met them with a volley of buckshot, dropped Clayton dead in his tracks, fled for the Mississippi swamps. All night 200 men and boys searched for him, found him at dawn, cringing in an empty barn. They lugged him up to the levee, mocked his yammerings for mercy. "De Lord save me-" cried Harris as guns cracked about...