Word: wesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Kristin Norstad, 21, only daughter of NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad; and Nicholas Wesson Craw, 22, student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and son of Medal-of-Honor-winning Army Air Corps Colonel Demas Craw, who was machine-gunned by Vichy troops on a truce mission in the North Africa campaign in 1942; in Paris...
...swung open the door, the girl reached into her handbag and pulled out a Smith & Wesson .38. Holding it with both hands ("I was afraid I would miss," she explained later), she opened fire. Last week, on trial for murder in Naples, she defiantly declared: "I would do it again!" With that, the whole courtroom burst into cheers...
...Only the New York cops seemed genuinely stirred. Al had hardly been lugged out of the hotel before they were questioning the first of hundreds of underworld characters. The two killers had dropped their pistols on the way out; one was a .32 Smith & Wesson, the other a .38 Colt which originally had been sold in the Middle West in the 1930s. That was all anybody knew. The police were intensely curious as to why Al's bodyguard, one Anthony Coppola, was in a drugstore across the street when Al was ventilated. Anthony was just doing what his kind...
...morning, Valencia, well-known as one of the best shots in Colombia, learned that the troops were preparing: to storm the house. Fingering a .32-cal. Smith & Wesson, he went to the window. "You will have to take me out dead or tied up," he called into the darkness. "You know the kind of fight I can put up." When news of the impending fight spread through the city, a group of leading citizens dashed to the bishop to protest. By telephone, Monsignor Medina routed Cardinal Luque out of bed. Nervously aware of the church's anger, the government...
Died. Major General Charles Macon ("Bull") Wesson, 78, onetime West Point ('00) line-bucker, later Chief of Army Ordnance, who took over that appropriations-poor department in 1938, had held the post for three years when the U.S. staggered into World War II without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece and still using World War I helmets, by his retirement in 1942 had fired up the Army's weapons program to nearly full steam; in Washington...