Show T tad ww af 9 9 m adventurers CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES LIVE S OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF YO death spits five times by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter ELLO EVERYBODY here boys and girls is the story you ever read in your life the story of a lad who was called yellow and like it the story of a lad who to show that he yellow sat unmoved while they put up a wreath of flowers in his lap a lily in his hand while death darted at him five times across a theater stage his name is philip luongo this lad who faced his maker rather rathe r than be called a coward and he lives in new york city and if you have ever got a job to do that calls for real courage just get phil to do it after what he went through six years ago in that crowded theater up in the bronx there anything in the world that is going to scare him phil like to be called yellow it was a dare that started phil luongo off on his big adventure A famous french sharpshooter was appearing at a vaudeville theater called for volunteers to be his he on tremont avenue and every night with five small glass balls on it human mark to wear a headgear while the frenchman shot them off one by one other lads who had seen and be shot at and when phil ph ia said the show dared phil to go up there he be like the idea they called him yellow be short at more than you or I 1 do but jh phil I 1 I 1 want to any they call him yellow and get away with it with his friends he went to the theater ready to make them eat those sneering words of theirs they took seats in the first row of the orchestra and waited for the frenchmans French mans act to come on ended and the frenchman was due next the fourth act had bad just he came out suave and smiling made a short talk about his war record of himself flying a plane in action and showed a short moving picture phil was scared to death on the western front then he went into his shooting act performing and never missing a shot imaginable with every kind ot of gun volunteered to be human target to his big stunt ot of the evening warmed As his act drew to a close he up he stepped to the front ot of the platform asked for a volunteer to the headgear but at the sa sane same ne time he warned the audience that on put who did put on the headgear would be doing it at his own risk anyone it was phils moment to speak up and darned if phil wanted of what would happen if the frenchman to do it he kept thinking should miss but suddenly out of a daze he found himself holding up his hand crying to the man on the stage that he would volunteer to be his human target frenchman seemed to look surprised then he smiled phil the ushered to the stage by the frenchmans French mans assistant seated in was he was scared to death but he tried not one of the wings by chair over a that the inside fact breathing betrayed the to look it only his heavy of him had bad gone ice cold and that his heart was pounding so hard that felt jureit must he be in tact fact it seemed as phil nobody tried to make it any easier for deliberately trying to scare him out of it they put a they were though frith of flowers in his lap a lily in his hand the orchestra began ang ng the funeral march the audience laughed suddenly the orchestra stopped playing the frenchman pushed a trunk to the middle of the stage lay down on his back and began sighting head along the barrel of his rifle A new fear gripped at phils phils at heart lie he known the frenchman was going to shoot at him hini from froin any such crazy position found himself a hero brow knit and little smile disappeared his the frenchmans French mans veins stood out like ropes in his forehead there came a sharp ball on phils headgear fell ell to crack and the first little glass another crack and another then phils courage came pieces unafraid while the frenchman back to him lie ile sat calm calin and shot off the other two balls and came toward him smiling with outstretched hand in thunderous applause phil suddenly found theater doare roared d the focused on him he tried to go eo back to his seat but again the spotlight brought back to take bows it might have been the he was and moment again of phils life but it the real thrill came when the big stepped forward to make a little speech frenchman he be congratulated phil on his courage in facing his gun said thing he had ever seen done and then he be 6 at t lade was wa s a the confession bravest that surprised phil himself in all his bis years on the frenchman said this was the first time anyone je ae stage enough to take such a chance usually he be admitted had bad courage bad d nobody volunteered and he had to use his bis assistant for or his bis final and what feat eat a look phil gave his friends down in the front row when frenchman said those words the copyright service |