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...license for his illicit still and legalized it as The Glenlivet Distillery. This won the enmity of his Highland neighbors, who ran some 200 bootleg stills in the glen, and smuggled their spirits to the Lowlands rather than pay duty to His Majesty's revenue officers. Highland hijackers waylaid Glenlivet's pony trains as they packed legal whisky over the craggy hills to Perth and Edinburgh. George Smith, a brace of loaded pistols strapped to his waist, protected the trains in person. By 1871, Glenlivet was the only still in the glen...
...court, won it early last month. In the meantime he had been threatened, his home had been broken into, he had been beaten up, and his personal bodyguard had been murdered. One day last week, while he was walking up the narrow staircase to his office, Gispert was waylaid and shot through the heart...
Beaming and looking fit in his civilian tweeds, General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower emerged from a 40-minute conference at the White House. Newsmen waylaid him. Ike greeted them genially. "Get out the cross and let a guy mount it," he grinned. Ike had been summoned by the President to discuss the job which Harry Truman had in mind for him. The job: Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic pact forces in Europe...
...when Smith got a play in the afternoon Honolulu papers with a "knockout blow" story of his own plus a Page One spread next morning in the New York Herald Tribune, Leviero's opposition. Leviero cabled his boss, Washington Bureau Chief Arthur Krock, charging that Smith had waylaid the query and written a similar story. Krock fired a protest to U.P.'s Washington Chief Lyle C. Wilson. Smith stoutly denied he had taken-or even seen-the Leviero wire. As for that episode at Wake, his feat there was simply in the great tradition of enterprising journalism. Reporter...
...head with an iron bar, kicked in the belly with nailed boots because he had urged farm laborers to secede from the CGIL. In May 1949, Anselmo Martoni, 30, a moderate Socialist, urged the braccianti (landless peasants) of Molinella to defy a Communist strike order. He was waylaid and slugged. Red bullyboys tried vainly to browbeat his mother into signing a paper declaring her son a bastard. A month later in Rome, Martoni made an impassioned speech before fellow Socialists, helped sway them toward secession from the CGIL...