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...until he was 28 did Matsukichi again fall into crime. Then it seemed inevitable. "I was asleep in a field," he said, "and I awoke after dark. I noticed lights in the distance and they led me into a large house which I robbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Gentle Felon | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...wildly pitching plane became a stinking chamber of horrors. Many of the passengers expected to die, waited for the plane to open up with the smash of every sledging wave. Passengers and crew grew violently seasick, vomited helplessly on themselves and each other. Exhausted children were sick, fell asleep in the foul, chilly air, woke and were sick again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Broomstick at the Mast | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...Christian Science Monitor's alert Correspondent Roscoe Drummond, recapitulating Taft's Western tour, reported last week that the Senator had fallen asleep in public once: at the Oregon-Texas football game. He also passed along a ditty, composed by newsmen to serenade Candidate Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Full Steam | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...that nobody won. A manager who was sent scurrying after the weight chart returned with the information that Howie had not weighed in after the game. He had fallen asleep on the rubbing table. Maybe he was training for next week's trip to the sleepy south...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Torrid Twirler Tantalizes Ten Thousand Men | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...Louis, Circuit Judge Eugene J. Sartorius ruled that a wife has a legal as well as a moral right to rifle her husband's pants when he is asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 22, 1947 | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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