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...everyone as he battered his way to what he was after but did not know how to ask for. He is not a large man, but he is a furious and a mad one. Men left The New Yorker for sanitariums, they had fits on the floor, they wept, they offered to punch his nose (he is terrified of physical violence). But he kept on hiring and firing blindly. By hit or miss he found the individuals who could articulate his ideas?and who could stand the pace of his temperament...
...broken ankle in a plaster cast, Primo Carnera watched movies of the fight which lost him the heavyweight championship of the world to Max Baer. Cried Ex-Champion Carnera: "Look at me go down ... I fall. I fall again. Look at Baer grin, the big smart Alec." Then he wept...
...three days in Boston last week, stocky dimple-chinned William Henry Cardinal O'Connell was a figure for pious adulation. His Holiness the Pope sent him a long letter of congratulation. At Holy Cross Cathedral the Cardinal celebrated high mass, faltered and wept as he addressed 3,000 people. Eulogies of him were delivered in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Syro-Maronite and Gaelic. Next day 20.000 children attended mass for him at Boston College. Then 30.000 people gathered in Fenway Park for mass and speeches by Senator David Ignatius Walsh, Governor Joseph Buell Ely and Mayor...
Toward 4 a. m. things began popping in the uncarpeted downstairs bedroom where Elzire Dionne lay. "Ça me fait mal," she wept. Ovila Dionne surmised that his wife was complaining about the swelling of her legs. But the goodwives knew that Elzire Dionne was on the verge of bearing her seventh child, perhaps twins. They dispatched Ovila down the rocky, forest-edged road to Dr. Dafoe's, placed kettles and pots of water to boil, laid out clean towels and a bottle of olive oil on the new bedroom bureau, lined a wicker clothesbasket with pads and sheets...
Ovila Dionne wept: "I am ashamed of myself...